No Agenda - 1837 - "Moral Injury"

Starting point is 00:00:00 I should mention dogs do not dance. Adam Curry, John C. DeVorea. It's Sunday, January 25th, 2026. This is your award-winning Kivar Nation Media Assassination, Episode 1837. This is no agenda. Hunker Down! And broadcasting live from the heart of the Texas Hill Country here in FEMA, region number six.

Starting point is 00:00:21 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we can tell that the weather's hurting the show. I'm John C. Devorak. It's crackbott and buzzkill. In the morning. Yes, people couldn't get outside to mail a check. It's horrible, I tell you. It's horrible.

Starting point is 00:00:42 It doesn't matter. Hey, it wasn't as bad and it is bad. Well, okay. Yes, okay. We should explain to people outside the country. Yeah. Well, I think this is international news. Yeah, we have a big storm in the middle of the country.

Starting point is 00:01:02 Yeah. Here it's, it's kind of chilly. Here it's 60. Oh, shiver me timbers. Yeah. So it is, I think it's about 25 right now. That's cold. Yeah, for us.

Starting point is 00:01:20 Well, yeah, it was, I think it was 14 or 16 last night. Too cold. Yeah. But last night is when we got. But freezing rain mixed with snow. And so it's just packed. It's just packed on top of everything. So we can't drive.

Starting point is 00:01:38 We can't even get down a driveway. We could slide down the driveway. But we can't drive. So you're stuck there. Yeah, kind of stuck. But we're ready for it. So without raiding the supermarkets, how much food? Because everyone rated the supermarkets.

Starting point is 00:01:55 Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. How much food do you think the average person? has in their house already that they could hold out with. You mean actual food or peanut food in the house? Or peanut butter. What counts as food? I count that.

Starting point is 00:02:12 Oh, I think if people really looked at what they have, they probably have enough for two weeks. That's what I'm thinking. Yeah. And we were thinking about it. If you have a big freezer, you can probably go longer. Oh, no, we could go two months if we're just doing stuff from the freezer because we do the big, you know, we get the big.

Starting point is 00:02:29 shipment from K&C cattle. But even at a certain point, we could eat the dog's food because she has that farmer's dog stuff. I'd eat that. And then we just eat the dogs. I think we could go for a couple of months. Dogs looking at me right now. Like, what did you just say?

Starting point is 00:02:46 What? What did you just say? No. Yeah. And funny enough, lots of power went out in Fredericksburg, but not at our place. Once again, once again, the generator is not used. That's the reason you buy it. The minute you get it, it never flips on.

Starting point is 00:03:08 It's just not necessary. It's amazing. It really is amazing. But, yeah, and it's weird. Like, my buddy Dave in Alabama, it's 50 degrees. It's like this thing went right around Alabama. It's the weirdest thing. Yeah, it's a funny pattern.

Starting point is 00:03:30 It's very strange. What I haven't heard, though, and I've been... Global warming. No, I haven't heard that for sure. But I haven't heard the extreme weather event. That's typically what they roll out. I think it's diminishing.

Starting point is 00:03:47 The whole, in fact... I think people are... I think they're realizing that people are getting sick of hearing it. Yeah. Yeah, there was something... I had a clip about this somewhere. I thought I had. Well, while you're looking for the idea of the weather report from NPR, you can play that.

Starting point is 00:04:07 Let's see, weather report. Storm update. Oh, storm. Storm updates. A massive winter storm is sweeping through a huge swath of the country from the southwest, heading to the mid-Atlantic and then up through the northeast this weekend, with heavy snow and ice possible. Freezing rain and sleet is also expected in many states. That could bring down trees onto power. lines leading to widespread power outages. Already thousands are without power in the southwest. National Weather Service meteorologist Josh Weiss. So if people lose power, if people can't get out of their holes because snow and ice is covering the roadways, they could be stuck for several days without the ability to get warm, and it's going to be so cold. We've got sub-zero wind chills that may reach as far south as Dallas, Memphis, and Raleigh, North Carolina, and all points north

Starting point is 00:04:56 there. So if people are trapped due to heavy snowfall and damaging freezing rain, this cold is going to linger all of next week, making a dangerous situation truly life-threatening. Thousands of flights have been canceled or delayed because of the storm. Mimi texted me. She texted me about three times a year. Usually one is, okay, time to do taxes. And then this is the first time this year. She's like, oh, Max Velocity says it's going to be bad. She loves Max. She called me last, she says, oh, you think he's going to be okay. I said, yeah.

Starting point is 00:05:32 I appreciate her concern. She doesn't say, she doesn't text me like, are you going to be okay? Just said, Max Velocity says you're going to die. Here it comes. Max Velocity. He's fun to watch because I'm always saying, you know, I've watched him a couple of times, but he's a little, he's a little too intense for my taste. A little.

Starting point is 00:05:54 Okay, he's way too intense for my taste. And he's, and Mimi's just in love with this guy. And she thinks his reports are so dynamite, but they have nothing to do with anything she's doing. She's on the area. He doesn't, he's covering the Midwest mostly. She just a weather junk. She's a weather junkie.

Starting point is 00:06:14 I mean, I know people like this. She's a weather junkie. There are people who just, you know, there's a, on the YouTube TV, there's a quad screen screen, a, Keep saying squeam. This is a screen. Stop me. I like the screen.

Starting point is 00:06:29 I like the quad screen. That's what it's called now. Quad screen of Weather Channel, Fox Weather, there's two other ones. And I'm sure people watch that all day long. Oh, weather. Weather. Whoa. Look.

Starting point is 00:06:45 Holy Maco, do you see the size of that hail in Oklahoma? Ooh. It's a size of a softball. It's a form of disaster tourism. you know, virtual disaster tourism, because he always has the storm chasers, and the storm chasers are now chasing snow. Yeah, we're in the snow right now.

Starting point is 00:07:03 We're driving. It's snowy. Yep, it's cold. Back to you, Max. Anyway, I'm sure we will survive. If we don't get any more precipitation, we should be okay. I found my climate change thing is at the end of this clip, because coming on the heels of the national security,

Starting point is 00:07:24 strategy is the new United States defense plan which is just as... Yes, that just came out. Just as stunning. 34 pages to outline the Pentagon's new national defense strategy and tell allies

Starting point is 00:07:40 they need to handle their own security. The defense blueprint reinforces Trump's America first philosophy, making that clear from its opening line. For too long, the U.S. government neglected, even rejected, putting Americans and their concrete interests first. Its primary concern is now security of the US homeland and western hemisphere,

Starting point is 00:08:00 including narco-trafficking and immigration. It's a break from the 2022 report under the Biden administration, where China was described as the most comprehensive and serious challenge to U.S. national security. Now China is priority number two, and the report says the U.S. should deter Beijing through strength, not confrontation. Our goal in doing so is not to dominate China, nor is it to strangle or humiliate them. Rather, our goal is simple to prevent anyone, including China, from being able to dominate us or our allies. There's no mention of Taiwan in the report.

Starting point is 00:08:36 What? What? What? What? What? In fact, China aims to take the island by force in the next year. As for the rest of the region, the document hints at a reduction of U.S. presence in the Korean peninsula,

Starting point is 00:08:47 saying Seoul is capable of taking primary responsibility for deterring North Korea, with more limited U.S. support. The message is clear. The U.S.'s allies will be expected to shoulder more of their own defense. That applies to Europe too. Russia, which appears 89 times in the 2022 report, is now largely in the background and dubbed a persistent but manageable threat to NATO's eastern members

Starting point is 00:09:12 despite its ongoing war in Ukraine. And while climate change featured heavily in the 2022 report as a transboundary threat, four years on, it's not mentioned. at all. I think they put that music in there to hijack the Europeans' nervous system. It's very annoying. Where did you get that clip?

Starting point is 00:09:36 France 24. France 24. I think it's either that or, yeah, France 24. Geez, and they produced it? That's weird. Oh, they do that all the time. It's horrible. They're going down the tubes.

Starting point is 00:09:50 I mean, Euro News has got African dudes reading it, which kind of makes sense, considering the population makeup of Europe these days. I'm being honest about it. So China slips to number two. That was number one. I couldn't figure it out. Number one is Merca.

Starting point is 00:10:08 Merca first, the Western Hemisphere. But the European allies got to pull their own weight. We don't care. Yeah. It's kind of good. I like the pivoting a little bit away from China. Just in related news, you hear about the Chinese top guy in the military? Yeah, they kicked them out.

Starting point is 00:10:31 Him and another guy. There's hardly anyone left in that committee anymore. No? John Yushia was once the president's most trusted military general, his second in command. He's now been placed under formal investigation, accused of grave violations of discipline and violations of the law, though the Defence Ministry has provided no details of the alleged misconduct. The drastic move lays bare major fractures within the military's most senior ranks.

Starting point is 00:10:57 The 75-year-old is one of just a few leading officers with combat experience. He joined the People's Liberation Army in 1968, fought in China's war in Vietnam, and climbed the ranks to become Xi's most important ally in modernizing the PLA, often taking to the international stage. We hope to communicate with the armed force. of various countries and will continue to deepen China-Russia relations. Another member of the Central Military Commission, Liu Zhen Li, has also been placed under investigation by China's ruling Communist Party.

Starting point is 00:11:29 Together, they were the two remaining leaders of its armed forces, who had survived previous purges after eight top generals were expelled back in October. Man, they're really doing something. Eight, so ten guys in total? This latest crackdown leaves Xi Jinping in sole operational control of the PLA, further consolidating his grip over the armed forces. Probes can last months or even years, most are detained, found guilty,

Starting point is 00:11:55 and removed from their positions in the party. Guilty of what? Guilty what? They're not telling us. They never tell us anything. They just tell them they found guilty. They probably are guilty of something that Chinese have a tendency to be corrupt.

Starting point is 00:12:07 Well, I think I know what it might be, if this is like 20 more seconds. Listen to the very end here. More than 200,000 officials have been expelled since she came to power in 2012, part of a broad anti-corruption drive to root out graft. But it's also viewed by many as a way to ensure loyalty and make the military more combat ready. In recent years, China has ramped up military drills around Taiwan. And the US government says she has ordered the PLA to prepare to seize the island by force by 2027.

Starting point is 00:12:39 I think that's it. I think these guys leaked the plans about 2027. We were hearing about that almost a year ago, the 2020. It seems even longer than that. Yeah, 2027. Oh, that's when it's going to happen. 2027, get ready for China. And I guess we're going to be ready to make our own chips by 2027.

Starting point is 00:12:59 Will we? Seems like you need, I mean, that Samsung plants is, I don't think that's operational, the one up in Taylor, Texas. Yeah, but that's not the same as the two nanometer process. They're using it, uh, Taiwan, Semps. semiconductor. They're so ahead of the game. It's ridiculous.

Starting point is 00:13:20 Of course, we allowed that to happen. How long would it take for us to replicate what we need? Well, it's all, you know, it's not their gear. That's the thing that that's good. You know, it's Dutch gear. The, the. Asm-L. We can buy, no, T-SML is this.

Starting point is 00:13:39 No, ASML. As-M-L, yeah, those guys. That's the Dutch guys. They would, they can, you know, we can do, and we're, we basically, tell them what to do. They don't just sell their stuff to anyone. Otherwise, the Chinese would have it. Yep.

Starting point is 00:13:53 And so we just say, okay, you got to build a place. The problem is that the TSMC, a lot too many letters here. The TSM guys, they tried, I think, made a couple of advances toward building or setting up shop in the USA, but determined that our people are too stupid. Well, they're too stupid at the prices they pay. Ah, that would be it. Because we got smart people, but, you know, you don't get them for pennies on the dollar. Well, somebody needs to start making some RAM, man.

Starting point is 00:14:28 The RAM prices are nuts. The RAM is funny, yeah. We got to make some RAM. Yeah, that'll change quick. Well, how? By the AI collapse. That'll do it. AI collapse, everything goes great.

Starting point is 00:14:45 We'll all be desoldering chips. Look, I got some RAM. You have a 22 terabyte solid state drive. Hey, man, I think Linux this Sunday. One week from now, the show will run on Linux. What? Yeah, I think so. I got really far.

Starting point is 00:15:01 I got the roadcaster working. I was blown away. I didn't think it was going to be possible. You can thank me. Because you put the, you put a timeline on it. You got me all stressed out. Like, I got to prove this. I can do this.

Starting point is 00:15:17 Yeah, you're always trying to show off. Well, it's not about show. I read somewhere that Linux desktop now has, uh, is close to 18% of all desktops. No. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, I mean, I read it. It doesn't mean it's true.

Starting point is 00:15:35 Um, it could be. Well, I think it should be nice. if it was, you know, half. People are so sick of Windows. And it's really just the stuff getting in the way. It's the pop-up. It's the ads. It's the, you know, you want to use this?

Starting point is 00:15:51 Well, you got to put it on the cloud. Got a cloud account. I think that people are just sick of it. And it sucks. It's slow. It's sluggish. Well, one of the problems I, in my perception, is that Windows always had the,

Starting point is 00:16:08 uh, compared to like, it was always Windows versus Mac. And with Windows, you felt you had some control. Really? Yeah, because you, with Mac,

Starting point is 00:16:21 it would put things in files. It would assume you're an idiot and just move things into certain places. And sometimes you couldn't find things. You didn't know where they were. That's gotten really bad with the iOS, with the iPad stuff. Tina's continuously like,

Starting point is 00:16:35 I mean, she goes into the closet and pulls out, my old MacBook Pro, I think, from at least eight years ago because she can't get Microsoft Word to function properly on her iPad. And she has a keyboard that goes with it, which doesn't have an escape key, of course. What? Yeah, does not have an escape key.

Starting point is 00:17:01 Yeah, Apple would pull that stunt. Yeah, it reminds me of Texas instruments when they came out with a, one of their computers and it was, and they had the keys that were supposed to be, they weren't there. Why is there no, no shift key? What am I supposed to do?

Starting point is 00:17:19 There's no S key. What are we doing? There's a lot of stuff. But with Windows and you felt you had a little more control, Linux is ultimately very control-oriented for the user. Well, this, you can, you want to move a file from A to B.

Starting point is 00:17:36 It's like, okay. Yeah. It's not questioning you all the time or automatically doing stuff. Like the Windows in this cloud, this cloud thing, this stuff, I'm looking for something and where is it? And they moved it to the cloud for some unknown reason. It's up there in the cloud. Well, you have two documents folders when you first start up Windows. I didn't realize this.

Starting point is 00:18:00 You got like a cloud document and that's the default. It's like what? Where did everything go? Oh, it's in a separate document. document folder. Okay. This is all, this ever said,

Starting point is 00:18:12 this is from, I think this is because Mac people came over and started working for Microsoft. This is, the whole idea of Macintosh was to make it so he's brain dead. Well,

Starting point is 00:18:22 I'll tell you this. 365, which is their office suite, was down last week for, I think, 36 hours. All corporate email was basically dead. I mean,

Starting point is 00:18:38 I was getting bounces from Marriott.com. That's not good. You know, everyone trusts all these companies with all of their stuff. Oh, yeah, put it. The cloud. I remember the cloud, the clouds put on the cloud. Oh, it's great to cloud. But what happened with the cloud,

Starting point is 00:18:56 Dave Jones is actually telling me this because he does IT for an accounting firm. He says the whole idea was that you were moving CAPX to OPEX. But these days, you have to. to take a full year subscription to even really get any kind of deal. So, you know, it's not even really an OPEX anymore. And they keep, you know, increasing prices, removing features that are now a separate tier. You know, it's just, you do something, like the AI companies are great at this. You do something in your tier.

Starting point is 00:19:35 And then all of a sudden it's like, well, you can wait for a week until we have a GPU free or you can upgrade to $200. Not everybody knows that K-Kap-X is capital expenditure versus operating expenses. I think we have the most intelligent people in the universe. We have a lot of Zeds that

Starting point is 00:19:55 think it's Florida ounces. Well, okay. So the capital expenditure is an important point because in the new tax ruling, all these companies that are building factories, we hear, we hear, we hear, we hear, here. Yeah, I've heard that they're doing it. I've heard. Trillions. The reason why they are doing it

Starting point is 00:20:15 is that they will be allowed to write off all capital expenditures in one year instead of amortizing that over, what is it, seven years. Except for the, I don't think the oil guys get that kind of deal. For some reason, the oil guys didn't get that deal. I don't know why. Do the guys have a deal, a real deal? Not according to the oil baron. He's feeling pretty screwed these days. Well, but by their standards. Oh, that's what I always tell them. Boo-hoo.

Starting point is 00:20:46 With your ranches. I don't feel that bad. I mean, come on, people. I don't feel that bad. But yeah, I'm excited. Just getting the roadcaster and all three of its USB interfaces to work

Starting point is 00:21:01 was astounding. That was the part that I thought was really not going to be easy. You should productize some of it and sell it back as drivers to road to guys who never give you anything for free. Those guys, you know, you're so right. They give every YouTuber of free gear.

Starting point is 00:21:26 Oh, we got this new box. Send it to that YouTuber. They never send anything. Never. Never. I don't get it. It must be an awesome. Yeah, that's the way you should sell them.

Starting point is 00:21:36 I'm not going to sell them. I'm going to open source my stuff. I'm not going to sell it. Oh. Hey, I want to give back to the world. I'm at a stage in my life where I care about giving back. You're giving back to Road. I'm not giving back to...

Starting point is 00:21:51 The people who screw you out of free gear. You must give your enemy to drink and to eat. No, you should... You should sell it to them. What are you, a communist now? I'm not a communist. You're a communist. I am not a communist.

Starting point is 00:22:10 How dare you? Someone got really bent out of shape the other day because you called me a bigot and they thought that was really a horrible. They don't know. Horrible thing to say. They think that's because I use it. I try to throw the term in every so often to familiarize people with what it actually means. People always think it's racial. Hmm.

Starting point is 00:22:31 I forget what the context. He had a different context for it, but did not like it. No, I understand when I say, when I call you a bigot, and I've done it more than once on the show, it's based on your, on the definition of bigotry. You'll be so, so you'd be, you're, for example, adhering to something very minuscule and minor and you're and you think everything that's against your basic thoughts is bad and that that is bigoted. Is that by definition? Is it really? No. Let's read the definition of bigotry. Why don't you bring it up? Okay. The definition of bigotry. Now, of course, this is Miriam Webster. That's the first one.

Starting point is 00:23:15 A narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices, especially one who strongly and unfairly dislikes or feels hatred towards others based on their group membership. I'm not a bigot like that. No, you're not a bigot like that, but that's the same. secondary meaning, the initial meaning is you are. Narrow-minded person who obstinately adheres to their own opinions and prejudices. You have a lot of opinions that you adhere to obstinately. You are the biggest bigotiv is. That's the definition.

Starting point is 00:23:54 You could call me one in certain circumstances and you'd be correct. Yes, but I don't do that. You're doing it right now. I didn't call you a bigot. No, no, you're being obstinate. Oh, oh, okay. Well, it's all right. That is, that's who I, it's hard to be right all the time.

Starting point is 00:24:15 It's just hard. Speaking of that, I just want. Yeah, see, there you go. That's what I'm talking about here. I just wanted to mention. So this guy gets all bent out of shape because I use the word properly. I'm sorry. Hey, I'm not complaining.

Starting point is 00:24:28 I just came up. This reminds me of the word niggardly. Well, you bring that up. I mean, I don't even. do that one. But it's a very, it's a, it's a, it's a, it means cheap. Well, it, it's, let's just stick with this for one second. Because we get emails frequently. I would say, ever since we just disagreed with the libertarian narrative and now widespread narrative that Israel controls everything in

Starting point is 00:24:58 America. And, and, and, but it's interesting because people, like, I mean, the, you, like, We have a difference. And by the way, what you're saying, the logic of that thought that Israel compares or controls. Israel controls, I'm sorry. Israel controls everything in America is so ludicrous. It's ludicrous. But yet people are all in on it. And it's baffling to us. So, but even like Trump, and we got an interesting, I got an interesting. email about this. Like Trump, it's like, let me see if I have that email. There's our cold weather show, ladies and gentlemen. Well, we got some other stuff to talk about. But, you know, people say, you're such fans. You're like licking his ass.

Starting point is 00:25:51 Heba, be, be, better, better, bed, on and on and on and on. And I'm like, first of all, we have an opinion. And sometimes he's funny. And we laugh. He can be very funny. Yeah. And we often, you more than I say, you know, he's not going to do anything. That's not going to happen. That's right. Because it's not going to happen. But here's, this is from Jason. He says, as an avid libertarian slash anarcho-capitalist,

Starting point is 00:26:23 I thought I'd give you a quick explanation about Judge Napolitano, Scott Horton, and Dave Smith, and the rest of our libertarian crew. And by the way, everyone goes through a period of libertarian. This is like the, this is very much like college women who go through their small, their small period of being a lesbian. Let's just analyze it that way. Wow. It's true we don't like Trump or his foreign policy. I think this is because I said, Judge Nopalitano just hates Trump.

Starting point is 00:26:56 But I also said, well, no, let me, let me read on. Many of us aren't fans of ICE and other federal agencies, but we're quite sincere. I don't doubt that. We don't like the Democrats either and see them as hypocrites who are just as much in love with government power domestically and American mercantilism abroad as Republicans are. We like Ron Paul and Thomas Massey because they oppose American hegemony and support a return to the Jeffersonian values of an agrarian republic that stays at home and minds its own business. and I'll just insert here, you will hear in today's show why that is not possible. I know you guys mostly respond to media rather than taking philosophical stances, but it's quite frustrating to listen to some of it as it feels like you're mocking our viewpoint without really understanding why we believe what we believe.

Starting point is 00:27:53 And then he throws in some Christian stuff, which is supposed to convince me. I just wanted to get that off my chest. Okay. So here's the point I was making is that when you have these same libertarians, and I'm talking about these podcasts. I'm not talking about you or anybody else in particular, but we have podcasters who are going to go to war with Iran. It's going to go to war with Venezuelan. And when Trump doesn't do it, they never say, wow, that was cool. He didn't do it. Maybe there's hope. That's my point. It's the hypocrisy of it because ultimately you're not libertarians, you're Trump haters.

Starting point is 00:28:35 That's the point. And what is this agrar? That's good. It's true. Or at least these podcasters. And I don't care how many hours of videos Scott Horton has, or how many books he's written about anti-war or war or whatever, whatever. But I live in the here and now. So it's just, you know, chill out.

Starting point is 00:28:58 you know, you can have, I'm happy, you find out your opinions. I just have a different worldview. And the people get all bent out of shape and all they've got is, you, fan boy, shekels. Come on. Shekels. It's just, wait until they hear that we're doing an Israel trip in March. They'll really flip out.

Starting point is 00:29:22 I'm going to do a show from Israel, I hope. They get good connectivity there. Oh, yeah. I do. So regarding ice, now I always get your clips early in the morning. So I have my own analysis, but I think we should start with stuff you have because you've got stuff. What do I do? Minnesota.

Starting point is 00:29:47 Oh, yeah, I do have a bunch of Minnesota stuff. Because once again, we're all, actually, I'll kick it off with one thing. I'll just kick it off. Where is it? We're all Zapruder. Once again, we're all Zepruder, everybody. Yep, yep, yep, yep, yep. Here we go. Aaron Burnett.

Starting point is 00:30:01 What do you see in all of this so far from the information that we have from the video you've watched from the responses we've gotten from DHS and from Mr. Bevino? Well, I mean, obviously, Aaron, in the core of it, you have an unbelievable tragedy where it appears that a potentially unarmed person was essentially assassinated by horrible law enforcement tactics. Horrible. That dramatically escalated this situation. But, you know, there are just, there are so many.

Starting point is 00:30:29 questions here. At the absolute core of lethal force training in the FBI Academy. This is Andrew McCabe, by the way. Oh, this guy's a horrible Trump hater. He's anti-American. He's a terrible

Starting point is 00:30:46 person. Why would anyone even put him on a show? He's disgraced. CNN, baby. Lethal force training. In the FBI Academy at Glenco, George. Did you hear the potentially unarmed piece there? I heard that. You mean the guy with the 9mm?

Starting point is 00:31:03 Is he talking about that guy? You're talking about that guy? You are taught from the very beginning that if you are in, if you use your weapon, you have to be able to, after the fact, articulate exactly why you perceived an imminent threat of death or serious bodily injury. And so the question now is, when are we going to hear that articulation? What is the reason that these officers or a single officer, we don't know how many people shot, believed they were an imminent threat of death by this person who was by all, every video we've seen,

Starting point is 00:31:41 on the ground with anywhere from four to five officers on top of him at the same time. Nowhere in these videos do you see a weapon in this man's hand. So again, this is the Zapruder effect that we in America love so much. Love analyzing video. Yeah, this reminds me of my favorite, which is the Jacqueline Kennedy shot JFK in the head. Yep, yeah. If you look at that film just right.

Starting point is 00:32:10 Oh, yeah, the driver shot him. I mean, everything. And this goes on forever and ever. And of course, we only have more and more of this with video. And video can be very deceptive on either side. Same movie, two different screens. You can look at something one way and get something out of it. But it's red meat for the M5M and for podcasters, apparently, because this is all we can talk about.

Starting point is 00:32:38 I mean, it's no different from Charlie Kirk. What 30 out six? Was it from above below? Did his microphone explode? This will go on for it. And I find it tedious and boring. I mean, obviously we've got... You didn't find it so tedious.

Starting point is 00:32:51 You didn't want to record that particular moment. Well, no. I do that for effect. I'm a show business person after all. Come on. I'm kidding. All right. But I have some thoughts on the whole thing, but I'd like you to do your clips first.

Starting point is 00:33:05 Okay, I'm sure you have some thoughts on the whole thing. So let's play these Minnesota shooting. Now, I had two versions of this. I have the short one, which I want to play the short one. This is all from NPR. The short one, because there's a little tidbit in here that I thought was funny, which is not mentioned at all in the long form. Which is new MN shooter NPR.

Starting point is 00:33:26 I got it. Minnesota officials identified the person shot and killed today in Minneapolis as Alex Jeffrey Preddy. As NPR's Meg Anderson reports, he was the second person killed by federal immigration agents in less than three weeks. In a news conference with city officials, U.S. Senators Amy Klobuchar and Tina Smith named Prattie as the shooting victim. They said Prattie was a 37-year-old ICU nurse, a U.S. citizen, and a Minneapolis resident. U.S. citizen. Senator Tina Smith. The Trump administration has already called Alex Preti a domestic terrorist. He was a nurse.

Starting point is 00:34:03 She stressed that if this can happen in Minnesota, it can happen in any community in the country. In the aftermath of the shooting, Mayor Jacob Frye requested that the governor deploy National Guard members to support Minneapolis police officers. Guard members will wear yellow safety vests to distinguish them from other entities on the ground. Okay. Yes. So the yellow safety vest got my attention. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 00:34:27 This is people, those people are directing traffic. So you're going to have the yellow safety vests, which is just going to cause nothing but. No, yellow safety vest is, in my opinion, seeing that most of these protests are organized operations, maybe by civilians, but that's someone who's a key figure. You're a leader,

Starting point is 00:34:57 you're a person who has a point person. I don't think you just put on the yellow safety vest. Which is my opinion. I don't know anything about this guy. Did he, I don't think. No, no, the yellow safety vest is what they're going to make the National Guard wear. Oh, well, that'll confuse everybody.

Starting point is 00:35:15 That'll confuse the protesters. Well, there's also, it has a bunch of symbolism, too. It's yellow, for one. thing, which is a surrender. Yeah. And it's also, the yellow vest movement is, I'm reminiscent of that. A little bit. In France.

Starting point is 00:35:33 And these guys are going to be like, if I'm a National Guard guy wearing like my normal, my normal fatigues, I'm going to look like a doofus wearing this stupid yellow vest. So, you know, the whole thing is funny. They left that out of the long form. And I thought that was kind of weird, weird to do, but okay, because the long form goes on for Let's start with the Minnesota shooting long form. This is more of an analysis than the other report. For the second time this month, federal immigration agents in Minneapolis have shot and killed someone. It happened this morning outside a donut shop where protesters quickly gathered.

Starting point is 00:36:12 This latest killing has put an already tense city further on edge. And today, the Trump administration and local officials are trading accusations about who is to blame. NPR's Jennifer Lutton is in Minneapolis and has been following all of this. Hi, Jennifer. Hi, Sarah. First, Jennifer, what do we know so far about what exactly happened this morning? Well, the Department of Homeland Security says there is an investigation with more information to come. But the immigration agent commanding this operation called the shooting self-defense.

Starting point is 00:36:48 Gregory Bovino told reporters that agents were pursuing an undocumented immigrant wanted for violent assault and then another person who was armed approached the officers and resisted when they tried to disarm him. Here's Bovino. This looks like a situation where an individual wanted to do maximum damage and massacre law enforcement. Then about 200 rioters arrived at the scene and began to obstruct and assault law enforcement. But there is a bystander video that shows multiple federal agents. It looks like at least six wrestling. someone on the ground, striking him, and then you hear multiple shots fired. It sounds like at least

Starting point is 00:37:31 10 rounds in just a few seconds. And it is not clear from the video if the man killed had brandished or reached for any weapon. Now, Minneapolis police chief, Brand O'Hara says the man killed was a 37-year-old white male U.S. citizen, U.S. citizen, U.S. citizen with no criminal record and a lawful permit to carry a gun. His family has identified him to the Associated Press as Alex Pretty. They say he was an intensive care nurse at the VA who was upset at the ice surge here. And his family says he had protested after an agent fatally shot another person, Renee Good, in her car earlier this month. I just need to interject one quick thing here because this, you won't hear this. It's not discussed anywhere. This is like, you know, it's like, was he a bad guy? Did the cops kill him?

Starting point is 00:38:18 This is back and forth. It's endless. If you physically interpose yourself, with law enforcement, that by itself is a federal crime. Done. So all bets are off at that point, whether you're armed or not. And I think it's bull crap that he was there. He was going to commit mass murder. I think that's bull crap. And I think it's weak on behalf of Christy Nome,

Starting point is 00:38:44 how she categorizes all this. The fact is they were on an operation. And, you know, Obama deported three million people. I guess he just did it in the middle of the night quietly. I doubt that. But there were no protests that I can remember. No. There were only protests about kids in cages.

Starting point is 00:39:08 Oh, wait. Yeah, that was Obama. That's Obama too. We got blamed for it. But if you put yourself, which he did, if you put yourself, you block a federal agent, that is a crime. Now, not a crime that an agent can shoot someone over and then you go to the next, you know, to the next phase of it.

Starting point is 00:39:29 But that already is the problem right there. And this comes from a different place altogether. But there's just no, I've not heard anyone say that at all. It's somehow this. They don't want to say it because it doesn't fit the narrative of a bunch of nasty ice guys. Yeah. That are out there trying to, you know, they're trying to, at some one of the terms was there were, murdering people left and right.

Starting point is 00:39:55 I can't remember how it went, but... It's what's amazing. It sounds like they're homicidal maniacs. There was more people killed in Oakland in the last three weeks than there has been in Minnesota. What I find fascinating is the constant ongoing from the M5M, particularly. Well, he had a concealed weapon. He was legally licensed to carry it.

Starting point is 00:40:19 This is the first time I've heard that this was a good thing. thing. Oh, it's good. It's good. Yeah, what happened to the old anti-guns narrative? No, not in this case. These guys can't make up their minds. They're just subversive. Yes. The media is subversive. It's just, we just

Starting point is 00:40:37 have to admit it. All right. Part two. Onward. Now, the Border Patrol commander mentioned quote, rioters at the scene. You were at the scene. What happened after the shooting? Yes. An Empire producer and I went there as word was spreading. Lots of people were streaming in to see and

Starting point is 00:40:55 to protest. There were dozens of people across several blocks. I did not see rioting. Local police officers used multiple rounds of tear gas to try and disperse the crowd. They say, look, it's a crime scene. Now, Linda Gottlieb was among those there. She was standing a few

Starting point is 00:41:11 feet from a line of local police officers in full face masks and riot gear. She's a health care worker and is frustrated and upset about this week's long federal search. They're trying to have the narrative be that the people are the aggressors. But we have seen on video and we've heard people testify to the fact that, no, they are being illegally detained and assaulted and sustaining injuries. And this is absolutely counter to everything our country stands for.

Starting point is 00:41:37 Our country stands for the First Amendment, which is the right to peaceably assemble, which, by the way, in constitutional law, even local government can determine where and at what time. peaceably assembling is not walking around in the streets and blowing air horns and whistles and throwing stuff at them. This is just not. I'll add that just yesterday, there were thousands of people filling downtown streets here in a very peaceful rally, peaceful rally demanding that some 3,000 federal immigration agents leave their city. Now, Jennifer, the Trump administration has been quick to denounce the man who was killed, calling him a, quote, domestic terrorist, blaming the shooting on local and state officials. what are those Minnesota officials saying? You know, we've heard outrage and frustration from them. Governor Tim Walz says the federal government cannot be trusted to handle the investigation.

Starting point is 00:42:29 The State Bureau of Criminal Apprehension says DHS is blocking its investigators from the scene. And remember, DHS said it's not even investigating the agent who shot and killed Renee Good earlier. Here's Governor Wals today. We continue to hear and we heard it from the vice president that these folks can do whatever they want. They can have full immunity. and what I'm telling you is they will not. There will be justice to Minnesotans. Now, it seems like you're allowing your peaceably assembled,

Starting point is 00:42:55 the constituents do whatever they want. Yeah. Great for Wall. This is so good for Wall, so good for him. He, wow, what a, it's almost a God sent for him. For now. For now. They have to, that guy should be arrested.

Starting point is 00:43:14 Probably. They haven't arrested anybody. I mean, they just don't, they, like this church thing with, the Don Lemon thing, which I have some thoughts on, by the way, I know you have some thoughts on it. I do have a completely different thesis than everybody else. But it's like the Don Lemon thing. Okay, so they arrested three people, the ringleaders, basically. And there was another 20 or 30 people.

Starting point is 00:43:39 Why aren't they getting arrested? It was the same violation of the Face Act. Why don't they pick them all up? The funny thing about the Face Act is it was written initially to keep church people away from abortion clinics. It's amazing to see this flip-flop than used by the church people on the abortion crazies. Well, the funny thing is about that face.

Starting point is 00:44:01 When it was proposed by the Democrats, the Republicans thought it was a bit much. It was so lopsided. And so the Democrats agree to allow the mention of churches in the act as a quid pro quo. Okay, we'll give you the abortion clinics. You've got to give us the churches. Yeah, it was.

Starting point is 00:44:21 And so it went through that way. Now it's being turned on, you know, on its head. But that's still beside the point. Where's the other arrests? Oh, and I'm in complete agreement with you. It's trespassing. They should be arrested for trespassing at minimum. Well, no, they should be arrested for the FACE Act.

Starting point is 00:44:37 Yeah, okay. Which is a lot stronger than trespassing. I'm just saying at minimum is what I said for trespassing. Um, I don't know. I don't know. I mean, they're too busy doing a lot. other stuff. It was very busy days. They're too busy not arresting people. Oh, can we, no, they're not going to arrest him either. So let's, was that the third clip? No, that was the second. No,

Starting point is 00:45:02 the third one is short. Is that some kind of kicker? A little kicker. Wals says the state is creating a log of evidence for possible future prosecution of immigration agents. And how worried quickly are people about things escalating? You know, there's concern. Governor Wals has activated the Minnesota National Guard to help local police with protest. Meanwhile, President Trump has accused him and the mayor of inciting insurrection. That's meaningful because he's repeatedly threatened to invoke the Insurrection Act and has put about 2,000 active duty military soldiers on standby for possible deployment to Minnesota. NPR's Jennifer Lutton. Thank you. And I think this is really what they want. They really want Trump to deploy National Guard, you know, or federal troops or whatever it is. They want to have militarization so that they can really go into the 26 election with their message.

Starting point is 00:45:53 Right. One of our producers, which is why they should start arresting people because they're not going to win the 26 elections anyway. One of our producers, David Atama, I think he's a knight. He had a very good catch from episode 1836. funny enough, one of your clips, the David Brooks clip, regarding Minnesota, and listen to what David Brooks said in that clip, which I don't know, I don't think either of us, we didn't discuss it. I don't know. I certainly didn't catch it first go around. And I've long thought if Americans see deportations of respectable families, they will finally rebel against this regime. And not just the progressives and not just Democrats, but normal people who are like, what the heck is going on here? Not just liberals and Democrats, but normal people. I thought that was an outstanding catch.

Starting point is 00:46:50 Wow, yes, that's a 10-pointer. That's a slam dunk. That's a game winner. That is a terrific catch. How did we miss that? I think it's because we both heard regime and we're like, oh, regime. Oh, yeah, we're focused on regime. Let's listen.

Starting point is 00:47:08 And this, again, is why video is destroyed. to analysis. And I've long thought, if Americans see deportations of respectable families, they will finally rebel against this regime. And not just the progressives and not just Democrats, but normal people. We're like, what the heck is going on here? Normal people. Normal people. Not the crazy progressives. Wow. So allow me to play a few clips here. The first one, another great observation. And this does come from black TikTok, but it's not your typical TikTok video. It is an in-car recorded video, so you know it's official. An excellent point here. You know why you're not seeing a lot of black people out there

Starting point is 00:47:56 protesting against ICE? You know why you're seeing predominantly white people only at these events? It's because back in 2020, the Democrats utilize the black demographic to go out and riot and act a fool. Oh, if you just elect us, we'll give you reparations and we'll force the police to wear body cameras and all these wonderful, amazing things, right? So, black people showed up like we are known to do and we voted up and down for one side of the aisle. And what do we get for it? Nothing as usual because many of us never learn. But now, here in 2026, we're seeing individuals who were slavously devoted to the Democrat Party. Now they're seeing the Democrats over their entire four years in office under Joe Biden.

Starting point is 00:48:32 They went out of their way to ingratiate themselves to illegal immigrants. and they sometimes prioritized illegal immigrants, even in black communities, the head of black American citizens. And black people are sitting there saying, wait, you said you're going to give us reparations, you're going to give us X, Y, and Z. And we got nothing for it.

Starting point is 00:48:46 So the silver lining is a lot of people are waking up and realizing the Democrats are only courting their next perspective voting block. They want to exploit illegal immigrants for an entire generation, much like the sport of the black community, for the previous several generations. And they're daring you to call them out on that and see it for what it is. So if you're wondering while you only see predominantly white liberals out here acting a fool, rioting and protesting against ICE,

Starting point is 00:49:07 it's because ICE is threatening their ability to cater to that next demographic that they desperately want to lock in for an entire generation. Exactly. Exactly what's going on here. Dead people be damned. They do not care. I went back and I looked up the Elio, because we were laughing about it, Elion Gonzalez. So just to reiterate, Eelian Gonzalez, this is 1999. there's a front page everywhere.

Starting point is 00:49:37 It's before smartphones and people were still blogging. We didn't have a social media. Barely blogging, I might say. What kind of blogs were there at the time? Was blogger a thing? It was the early blogs. Yeah, blogger was out there. Yeah, blogger.

Starting point is 00:49:51 And a couple of these systems. Yeah. And splashed across the front pages of all newspapers, and you go look it up, Elyon Gonzalez, this five-year-old kid, and there is what we would today call. It didn't exist then. An ice agent with a submachine gun sticking in this five-year-old kid's face.

Starting point is 00:50:10 His eyes are bugged out wide. Yeah, it's great. I mean, it was just outrageous. I looked this up. What happened was this was this was the big election between Bush and Gore. And they wanted to get the Cuban-American voting bloc. And so this was, this happened. The Republicans.

Starting point is 00:50:39 Yes. Oh, yeah, the Republicans. Exactly. This was right before the election. All these things, it always happens when it's elections. And then you just want to make one side or the other look bad. And if it can get a five-year-old kid, like we've seen this kid, you know, with a little rabbit hat. I mean, it's heartbreaking.

Starting point is 00:51:00 Of course. It's a hardbreaker. Yeah. It's a total heartbreaker. You're looking at this. Poor little kid. But it is, yes, of course, it's horrible. It is meant to tug at the heartstrings and think the other side is evil.

Starting point is 00:51:13 But we can't blame ICE or the protesters because what's really happened here is you have two things. You have people obstructing law enforcement. And then you have the local officials, the local leaders, I just say the blind leading the blind, telling them to get out on the street, put your body on the line, all and continuously making this law enforcement, what it truly is law enforcement, but it turns into a complete mayhem when people are told, go out and protest against them. Let's look at the core issue. The core issue is lost in this, and I did just a little mini supercut because we have been told what is happening over and over and over again.

Starting point is 00:52:02 And I think because our president usually speaks in some parables that we can't even decipher, although it's true. And sometimes like, what is the guy trying to tell me here? But this is what he has said for the past 10 years as a candidate and as president. Nearly 180,000 illegal immigrants with criminal records, ordered deported from our country, are tonight roaming free to threaten peaceful citizens. They are being released by the tens of thousands into our communities with no regard for the impact on public safety or resources. They're poisoning the blood of our country. That's what they've done. They poison mental institutions and prisons all over the world, not just in South America, not just the three or four countries.

Starting point is 00:52:58 that we think about. But all over the world, they're coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world. They're pouring into our country. Nobody's even looking at them. They just come in. As I've said many times, the Maduro regime emptied out their prisons, sent their worst and most violent monsters into the United States to steal American lives. And they came from mental institutions and insane asylums. They came from prisons and jails. They sent from their mental institutions, they sent from their jail prisons. They were drug dealers. They were drug kingpins.

Starting point is 00:53:34 They sent everybody bad into the United States. We will begin removing the more than 2 million criminal illegal immigrants from the country. Deport all criminal aliens and dismantle every last criminal gang and cartel threatening our citizens. Drug dealers, gang heads, gang members. Right. So right away in the troll, room. Trump is a dog whistling piece of shit. Okay. Exactly. Because his parables are not understood. I came across an interview with Peter Schweitzer. He has a new book out. The Peter Schweitzer,

Starting point is 00:54:11 we know from Clinton Cash, which I know I read, you might have read it too, which was really good, very detailed. He's written a number of these books. I'm pretty sure he's a spook or was, you know, George Washington University, Young America's Foundation. The kind of information he has is kind of... St. Cross College. St. Cross College. This is a spook school. So I'm pretty sure he's a spook or former spook or spook adjacent. But he does have information.

Starting point is 00:54:45 And he's written this new book called, titled The Invisible Coup. And he takes us back to when what the Trump, what the Trump is talking about, is actually true. I think it should be the Trump. We're going to call him the Trump from now on. Listen to this. Back in 1980, the Marriole boat left. And a lot of people that were around will remember that the United States was flooded with Cuban refugees. And Jimmy Carter.

Starting point is 00:55:13 These were the Cuban boat people. Remember, they were floating. Oh, yeah. They're coming around everything. On inner tubes, all kinds of stuff. And this first started developing said, you know, we're a compassionate country, which is true. to welcome them with open arms. And Fidel Castro told his top aides, well, we're going to fill our arms with excrement. He used a different word. And this was really the first modern example of

Starting point is 00:55:40 weaponized immigration, because what Fidel Castro recognized was we can actually attack the United States by sending them criminals, people that are mentally ill, but also people that are going to set up criminal networks, drug networks, inside the United States. And so what we thought was a sort of random humanitarian event was actually a targeted attack. And I quote from a government panel that later looked at the Mario Boatlift and concluded that it was probably the third most lethal foreign attack on the United States. Besides Pearl Harbor and 9-11, the Mario Boat Lift was probably the third most lethal attack. So I already got his book, and he's very detailed with his sources, where it's all coming from. But it's not all that hidden.

Starting point is 00:56:32 Now he gives us the Sao Paulo forum, and who's involved in that? And this became a template for a lot of modern Latin American leaders. In the summer of 1980, when this was unfolding, Fidel Castro goes to Nicaragua to meet with San Dena's leaders. and there's a young revolutionary there named Lula, who later today is the president of Brazil. And he sets up an entity called the Sao Paulo Forum with Fidel Castro, which includes progressive leaders from across Latin America and in the United States, the Democratic Socialists of America, which is Bernie Sanders and AOC's group. And the Sao Paulo Forum has weaponized immigration against us today. and that includes the Morena party of Mexico and Petro, the leader of Colombia, and a whole host of other countries who have adopted this is their strategy to defeat the United States.

Starting point is 00:57:31 Enter Mexico, who has quite the plan, apparently. And I always thought of Mexico in the context of, okay, you've got kind of this hapless government and it's corrupt, and they're kind of glad for mass migration because now they don't have to feed their own people. The reality is, in their own words, they view immigration very differently. But this is from a government report. This is a report written by one of President Scheimbaum's top AIDS in December of 2024. We already know that the Mexican population in the United States reaches 39.9 million. We Mexicans are reclaiming our territory. That's from December of 2024. Here's a powerful senator who's also a member of

Starting point is 00:58:15 the Marina Party, who sits on the National Defense Committee, which is the most powerful committee in the Mexican Senate. We Mexicans are in our territories, California, Nevada, Texas, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and Wyoming. We're going to take back the territory that was stolen from us. They have actually created a network and infrastructure inside the United States. And this infrastructure, this includes Mexican government. officials inside the United States who are organizing violent protests like those that hit Los Angeles,

Starting point is 00:58:51 those that are in Minneapolis, and they are actively participating in our politics. They are working to elect Democrats who are sympathetic, a foreign government, to elect Democrats who are sympathetic to them on immigration and working to defeat President Trump through Mexican consulates that are across the United States. I don't doubt this at all. It sounds completely plausible. Yeah, that's where the Mexican flag is always prevalent at these things. Exactly. And here's a little...

Starting point is 00:59:24 You get a clue, people. What do you... Why are these guys flying a Mexican flag in Los Angeles? Come on. Here's a little bonus clip. Mexico has a reputation for being kind of a sleepy, corrupt government, and people don't take them seriously. I think we should.

Starting point is 00:59:39 Mexico has 53 consulates in the United States. 53. In contrast, the two other countries with the most are China and the United Kingdom with six and seven. So I don't doubt that the Trump is telling the truth, but he speaks it so, I mean, he's so repetitive that everyone's like, yeah, whatever, where are they? My cleaning lady doesn't seem to be dangerous. But I completely believe that all these different countries have indeed emptied their jails and their insaneness. Asylums and, well, when they could, send people over. I don't doubt that at all.

Starting point is 01:00:19 And he says, well, maybe two million of them, quite possibly. And then this is the final clip. This is just an extra bonus. This is a quote from 2023 that I think lays out the fact that they want this to be silenced. Again, this is from 2023. The head of the Mexican News Agency, which is like their sort of associated press, he says, quote, we are quietly carrying out the reconcernment.

Starting point is 01:00:44 of our territories in the U.S. taken from us in 1848, the reconquest of the Aztec territory is silent, and the day that the gringoes realize this, their diabolical fundamentalism will become macabra. In other words, we need to keep this quiet. We don't want to talk about it publicly, because when the gringoes, as he says, find out, they're going to be really, really angry about it. So we need to recognize what's going on, have an honest conversation about it. There are dozens of these quotes in the book from Mexican officials, and we go through and name the Mexican government officials who are at the center of the L.A. riots last year who are manipulating our politics. Yeah, I think that Trump is right. And this is what ICE is going after, after these elements that have.

Starting point is 01:01:40 infiltrated our country. He's right. But I just kind of glossed over it too. Like, whatever, I've heard it a million times. Where are they? But the fact that they have colluded with the Democrat Party, certainly in the Los Angeles quote unquote riots, if you see the organization, it doesn't surprise me at all. So stuck in the crosshairs of this is law enforcement and citizens who really have been told they're doing the right thing. You're compassionate, you're empathetic, and you're a good person. And liberals love being good persons in general.

Starting point is 01:02:20 But this is an actual battle. And I can't wait to see what Schweitzer has in his book because I'll bet there's a lot more to this. Now you've got to read this thing. Right? I know. I know. Thanks.

Starting point is 01:02:37 You're welcome. So, you know, tragedy of foolishness and blood guilt, the way I see it, between foolish people who have been told, who somehow believe that it's their right to peacefully protest, which is not peaceably assemble, yes. And they're being told by their actual elected representatives what to do. And those representatives in turn are taking, apparently taking, uh, taking commensual. man's from other countries because hey will they should arrest walls and that fry guy a guy's an idiot yeah they should because people are going to get hurt but they're not going to arrest i mean they arrest the ring leader which brings me to the don lemon i just want to get this out of the way don lemon uh which you made a point of they you know we didn't talk about it but i'm going to talk

Starting point is 01:03:32 about it as far as i can tell looking at the just the the way it went down don't Lemon is a CI for the FBI. There's no doubt in my mind about this. As in confidential informant. Informant. And he's probably getting paid because the way he set up that woman who organized the church invasion was so obvious. He did a long interview with her. She just basically convinced, I'm sorry, confessed on camera, everything she was going to do, all the illegal action.

Starting point is 01:04:08 everything in between. You even had a name for the operation, Operation Pullup, which I still can't figure out. But yeah, good point. And so he got that on tape and then he went in there and he made a fool of himself. And then they put the indictment or the arrest warrants out for three individuals and they left and included four actually because Don Lem was on it. And the judge refused to indict or have Don Lemon arrested. Yes. Well, this. was a major screw up because when you have a CI and he gets caught up in it, he gets arrested. That's the idea. You don't want to make it to appear.

Starting point is 01:04:48 And the judge who let him go, his wife works for AG, the Attorney General of Minnesota. Nice catch. Ellison. And so she probably thought, well, you know, hey, he's working for the, actually working for the FBI. Oh, okay, I won't arrest him because I want to give him a break, not knowing. the playbook. Pam Bondi has to fly. She says, I'm flying to Minnesota. She's got to literally fly out there and she can't do it over the phone. She has to fly out there and read this guy, the riot act, why he screwed up because Lemon has to be arrested. Otherwise, his covers is blown.

Starting point is 01:05:27 Or his cover's blown. And it is blown as far as I'm concerned already. Yeah. But his whole game was being, you know, he needs money. And the giveaway was when he was, he does. I love it. Honey, I've got to take this gig, honey, I'm sorry. I just have to. Oh, and you know the type of guy he is. He's one of those guys who thinks it's cool. Yeah, of course. And so he would, so he gets, gets himself involved in this whole thing.

Starting point is 01:05:56 But the giveaway was a clip you played on another show that was him. And this is a clip that I thought about getting, but I hate these people. This is the, I've had it podcast. to the putty-faced woman. I talked about her in the newsletter. Yes. Jennifer Welch. And she has Don Lemon on.

Starting point is 01:06:15 And Lemmon's going on and on about what happened. Oh, yeah. And he says, and he uses the term, my producers. Yes. My producer. What is a guy who's a podcaster that indicates multiple people, my producers. And, you know, you might want an engineer, you know, or something. different kinds of you're going to go a solo and do what he's doing. You don't need

Starting point is 01:06:40 producers. But his producers, this is handlers. One of them is obviously the FBI guy. This is so phony. But poor Don Lemon, now it's going to have to be, because you will probably arrest him to try to make amends. And then they're going to have to decide what are we going to do with him. Will Don, he'll get a slap on the wrist, maybe, but maybe Don can say, hey, you know, if you put me in jail for four months at some really lush place. I might meet somebody. No, no. It would be, it would go like this.

Starting point is 01:07:13 It would be, I'll have street credit and I can do a lot of better job. Do you want to hear? I have that clip if you want to hear it. Yeah, I play that clip with. Yeah, here we go. And there's a certain degree of entitlement. I think people who are, you know, in the religious groups like that, it's not the type of Christianity that I practice, but I think that they're entitled.

Starting point is 01:07:32 And that entitlement comes from. a supremacy, a white supremacy. And they think that this country was built for them, that it is a Christian country when actually we left England because we wanted religious freedom. It's religious freedom, but only if you're a Christian and only if you're a white male pretty much. And so, yeah, absolutely 100%, but it's an intimidation tactic. And, you know, I said, I don't understand how I've become the face of it when I was a journalist. I do understand that I'm the biggest name there. And I'm also, as I was on with my producers this morning, you know, you and Kylie talk all the time. My producers were saying, I said, how did I become a woman? I said, how did I become a

Starting point is 01:08:04 on the face of this. And my producer said, Don, you're a gay black man in America. I take some, some kind of pleasure in knowing that you are listening to me and Pastor Jimmy and yelling at the podcast that we got. Shaking my fist. Like, he's an FBI informant. Don't you guys see that? It's an FBI, CI. CI. So this will play out in some way. It's already, as far as I'm concerned, the cover's blown. And, but. Sure. But nobody else is seeing this, obviously. They wouldn't be all upset.

Starting point is 01:08:38 All the podcast industrial complexes all over it because, you know, Don Lemon, they hate him, which is perfect cover. Oh, and all the podcast pastors. Yeah, they've totally whiffed on that. I actually have a short clip of the Attorney General Keith Ellison. I don't remember what's on it, but it's only 30 seconds. The protest is the fundamental to American society. This country started in a protest. And, you know, it's freedom of expression.

Starting point is 01:09:09 People have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace. And none of us are immune from the voice of the public. So quite honestly, I think that you got the First Amendment freedom of religion and the Freedom of Amendment, Freedom of Expression. No. And I think that, you know, it's just, I think it's just something that you've got to live within a society. No, he breaks up there.

Starting point is 01:09:34 Boy, that's terrible. Yeah, that's why I didn't play it, I guess. Yeah, there's something fishy about that guy, too. I mean, that's not even a jurist who's speaking there. I mean, oh, our country started with the protest. Mm. Okay. I don't think so.

Starting point is 01:09:52 I guess tossing the tea over the, there's a violent protest. Yeah, but that's why we put together a bill of rights and what the, and this is not about, And I hate it when people in law say, well, we have these rights. I don't know. Those, the amendments are telling. No, what you hate is when they say the government is allowed these rights. Yes, exactly. Well, the government conferred.

Starting point is 01:10:18 Yes. Yeah, that's the bad part. Yeah, of course it's bad. Like, this is your little sliver of what you may do. No, no, this is what the government may not stop you from doing. And that, yeah, that always does irk me. But that's just our education system. I think you have nailed it on this.

Starting point is 01:10:35 And you're right, they really screwed up by not at least detaining him overnight. I mean, even that would have given him enough street cred to talk about. He had to use a toilet paper roll as a pillow. Yeah, all the good stuff. That happened to a friend of mine. A pilot, he flew to Cancun for New Year's with his. wife. He has his own plane. And, you know, here in Texas, we have a flight bag. Just throw the flight bag in. And, you know, it's got your iPad and your chart. Not charts anymore, but, you know,

Starting point is 01:11:12 like a backup radio, just your flight bag. And so on the way out as he's leaving, which is when, and he has a small turbo prop, so not a, not a private jet or anything. But this was the moment when everyone with a private jet decided to leave. So they had extra security. He puts his bag on the belt and he sees all these guys coming around. They're looking at the bag and he left his handgun in it. So

Starting point is 01:11:39 he gets arrested. And of course they're, you know, wait a minute, stop. He's on a, he's got a private plane and they're checking his luggage? Handbag. Yeah, on the way out of the airport. At the private airfield terminal. Yeah. I've never heard

Starting point is 01:11:57 is such a thing. Oh, it's happened to me in Switzerland. No, it definitely happens for international flights. They want to make sure you're not smuggling drugs out, or this all kinds. Okay, all right, okay. You know, it's a private plane terminal. And so he has his little 9mm in there

Starting point is 01:12:13 and they're like, where did you buy this? Who did you get this from? He's like, why would I buy a gun in Mexico when I can buy one at Kmart? He was detained for 48 hours and literally in a cell. So that ruined his vacation.

Starting point is 01:12:30 Oh, yeah. How about his wife who had to just figure out how to get home on a commercial flight? Oh, the horrors. And I think he wound up paying because, you know, the consulate got involved and they got him a lawyer. And he had to pay $24,000 to the lawyer, most of which was given out to people in bribes to get him out. Mexico. And here we're just like, yeah, whatever. We'll protect you.

Starting point is 01:12:56 just a little contrast there. Yeah, I'd say that's more than a little contrast. And he's leaving the country. Yeah. Yeah. I got a good one. And I was like, you didn't call me? I can't believe you didn't call.

Starting point is 01:13:15 We got robbed the constitutional lawyer. We've got people around. You know, we got people we can call. We know people. Oh, no, no. I just wanted to play it straight. Could have had you out in two hours, man. So someone has straightened something out from the last show.

Starting point is 01:13:36 We got your buddy Scott Simms Simon coming up. Yes. To talk about the tree explosions. Suffer and succotash. I'm Scott Simon. Is there anything people can do to... No, no, not that one. Hold on.

Starting point is 01:13:56 Oh, I'm sorry. That's the second. That's part two. Oh, I just see Scott Simon tree protection. Yeah. You're going to love this. Sorry. I see.

Starting point is 01:14:09 Acot. Acott, Simon. Okay, I got you. The trees don't really explode, do they? That term of an exploding tree is kind of a sensationalized headline that gets a lot of attention. By the way, I was talking to Tina about this who grew up in Indiana. She said never. It was 10 degrees, 8 degrees.

Starting point is 01:14:31 She said she has never, ever heard. of this exploding tree phenomenon. It's new to me as well. In reality, the more appropriate term would be cracking tree. When it gets cold enough, the sap inside a tree will actually freeze. Most of the time, it's a liquid that has all sorts of sugars and things dissolved inside it. When that sap reaches that critical freezing temperature, which is usually well below 32 degrees, it will expand. just like water will expand when it freezes, the sap is mostly water and the sap expands.

Starting point is 01:15:09 This puts tremendous pressure on the inside of the tree. And if the tree is physically unable to handle that pressure, it cracks. And that's how it reduces the pressure on the inside of the tree. This usually does not kill the tree, but it can be a safety hazard. So if these large cracks appear in trees that are around people or buildings or vehicles, or vehicles, an arborist should look at this tree and determine if it is a safety hazard. What's the sound like? As you can imagine, it takes a lot of pressure to cause wood to crack.

Starting point is 01:15:46 So it would not be uncommon to hear a large cracking sound, a large popping sound that almost sounds like a gunshot, but it is actually the wood physically cracking. Any kind of trees more vulnerable than another. Maple trees get most of the attention, given how common they are and how susceptible they are to cracking. Most hardwood trees that lose their leaves in the winter will crack if it gets cold enough. And conifers such as pine trees or spruce trees can also crack as well. When the temperature gets down to about minus 20, that's when the sap freezes and you get this cracking occurring. That's really cold, isn't it?

Starting point is 01:16:28 The Upper Midwest gets these cold temperatures every few years. So trees are used to this. They handle it. They may have a physical deformation, but they probably will live through it. This is interesting. We have maple guys in our, in Gitmo Nation, who do maple syrup. You've received maple syrup from them. So have I.

Starting point is 01:16:49 Yeah, I love maple syrup. Email me and said, I've never seen this. We got maple trees. Yeah, well, this is in our. A guy was some sort of an expert, but I mean, maybe it doesn't get cold enough where the maple trees are. It has to be below 20, minus 20. Minus 20. Oh, that's, okay.

Starting point is 01:17:10 That's very cold. And now we play the second piece here? Yeah, and this is just kind of a follow-up. Is there anything people can do to avoid their trees cracking? Realistically, the most practical thing for a homeowner with a small tree to do is, wrap the tree with tree wrap. It's sort of like painters tape or duct tape that you wrap around the base of the tree up to the first set of lower branches. This can help provide some insulation and hopefully reduce the likelihood that that small tree is going to reach that critical

Starting point is 01:17:47 temperature at which it cracks. Bill McNey of the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, we wish you and your colleagues and everyone in Wisconsin a good weekend. Thanks so much, sir. Thank you for having me. Now, the more I think about it, I think lots of these videos that were going around might have been just AI generated. You think? Wouldn't be surprising, would it?

Starting point is 01:18:08 I'd say half the stuff I'm seeing nowadays is AI generated. Well, funny, you bring that up. Here to explain. No, well, stop, wait a minute. I was going to say, I should mention, dogs do not dance. Okay? There's no doubt.

Starting point is 01:18:23 Are you sure? Are you sure that? Pretty sure they don't dance. don't dance. Here to explain, CBS News, Money Watch, correspondent, Kelly O'Grady. Kelly, good morning. So what is driving this push to clean up this AI content and then what protections are out there that YouTube will put in place? So, I mean, there's just been an explosion of that low quality content, as you said, to the extent that over a million YouTube channels each day in December used AI technology in creating those videos. So it is a lot. And that creates a number of issues.

Starting point is 01:18:53 One, you have viewer trust issues. You've got these deep fake videos that look really real. and people don't know if they are. And so that also leads to the platform becoming low quality as a whole, potentially, and all of those AI slot videos sort of crowding out legitimate creators trying to make a living, try and bring us good content. And by the way, it's not good for advertisers or brands either. No company wants an ad running next to a bad AI video. You ask about protections.

Starting point is 01:19:21 YouTube specifically does require any creator that has created an AI-generated video to say so, their tools specifically if you use a video or you create a video using their tools there is a label there so you know exactly exactly and then in general the algorithm tries to down rank low quality content doesn't always work and it often comes down to people having to do this when things are evolving so quickly yeah yeah i'm happy the the number one progenitor of AI is screwing themselves i completely agree i mean you scroll through youtube looking for something something. It's like, oh, first of all, all the images look like our art, you know, everything, except for the cartoony ones. It's all AI generated labels, you know, the poster images. It's like, everything looks the same.

Starting point is 01:20:12 It looks, if it looks AI, you're going to presume it's AI, and then you play it and how many times, I don't know if you've had this, we're watching this video and after three minutes, you're like, wait a minute, this is just stock footage rotating with a voiceover. There's nothing coming up here. I've had that happen. It's quite annoying. And it takes minutes. It's almost like done on purpose as a joke.

Starting point is 01:20:37 Oh, no. How much would you look? My favorite thing is that wait till the end. Have you seen these? And there is nothing that happens. Nothing goes on and just ends. You won't believe what happens. Wait till the end of this video.

Starting point is 01:20:50 It's going to be great. Yeah. Because that used to mean something like five years ago. Wait for it. And right on the heels of this, of course, we have something called the Defiance Act. And it has a celebrity at the forefront of promoting this act with just a hilarious side connotation in my book. Paris Hilton was on Capitol Hill yesterday pushing for the passing of the Defiance Act. And it would allow victims of sexually explicit AI-generated deepfakes to take leave.

Starting point is 01:21:24 legal action against the creators and distributors of that content. Hilton spoke about the impact a leaked sex tape had on her life. She spoke about the fears that girls and women who could potentially become victims of the AI pornography. The bill is championed by New York Congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. So what I find just amazing in this is that the impact the leaked sex tape, which she filmed herself, had for Paris Hilton, what she became globally. famous, just like Kim Kardashian. I mean, they probably want this act pass so that no other women can, you know, can get up into their level of fame.

Starting point is 01:22:06 This is crazy. Well, that's an interesting analysis. Oh, I mean, she didn't need money being a Hilton heir, but she became just the... And this kind of attention, the first thing that got my attention in this attention grab was they now have the opportunity to sue the creators. The creators are anonymous. They're like hackers and guys who live in the basement and the kind of crazy guys and some smart guys and everybody in between who can do these AI things.

Starting point is 01:22:39 They do them and they slipstream them into the system where they get passed around by other people. And you can't, who are you going to sue? Whoever posted it probably. if you post it on YouTube. I mean, it's going to... You can't track down any half to people that are on YouTube.

Starting point is 01:22:58 You can't track down anybody on TikTok. You can't track them down. Well, no. Well, I don't know. Things have changed. Terms of service changed. The deal is done. An estimated 180 million TikTok users in the U.S.

Starting point is 01:23:13 had been waiting anxiously for the fate of the app to be determined. It had been banned by a 2024 law signed by, by then President Joe Biden that came into effect in January 2025. The law banned social media apps linked to foreign governments like China from being available in U.S. app stores. But on taking office, President Trump signed a series of executive orders, providing for a delay in enforcing the law to allow time for U.S. investors to negotiate a deal with a Chinese parent company.

Starting point is 01:23:44 President Trump acknowledged that users of the TikTok app had played a significant role in his election victory. Essentially with TikTok, I have the right to either sell it or close it. And Vice President J.D. Vance also played a role in pushing for a deal. Of course, we're going to keep on working at it, but this deal really does mean that Americans can use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than they had in the past because their data is going to be secure and it's not going to be used as. Oh, I can use it with more confidence. Confidence of what? I'm watching dancing dogs and fans.

Starting point is 01:24:20 That chicks falling on a balanced beam and all this other. What are they talking about? I'm only watching it for the amusement. That Americans can use TikTok, but actually use it with more confidence than they had in the past because their data is going to be secure and it's not going to be used as a propaganda weapon against our fellow citizens.

Starting point is 01:24:38 Full details of the deal are still to be revealed. The parent company, Biddance, will still control a fifth of TikTok equity. But it rejoined by U.S. tech company Oracle, a private equity firm, Silver Lake and the Emirati-backed investment firm MGX. Oracle is owned by Trump supporter Larry Ellison, who had previously accused the platform of being pro-Palestinian.

Starting point is 01:25:01 Oracle will manage TikTok's data security, algorithm, and cloud computing, essentially moving control into U.S. hands. Yeah, were you going to see dancing Israelis now on the balance beam? So you can tell you know, all I learned from that report, because I have never seen a pro-Paleky. Palestinian TikTok ever. No. All I got from that report is that the Algo has determined that Larry Ellison is on TikTok looking for Palestinian material.

Starting point is 01:25:31 Bingo. And he finds one. He goes, oh, my God, let me look at it again and again. And then next thing, you know, he's getting tons of it. Let me share it. I got to share it. I got to share it with my group. He's sharing it.

Starting point is 01:25:42 So now Larry, the tech genius, is decided that that's all TikTok is because he doesn't understand it at all. Is that what I'm being told? That's what I'm being told. Well, the terms and conditions have changed. Interesting that there is a Middle Eastern co-owner of this, because, of course, you know, we have to have confidence that it's not China who has our data.

Starting point is 01:26:06 The language in the new policy and reading from the New York Times was more sweeping. It said TikTok would use the data collected from users and third parties to show customized ads and other sponsored content, both on TikTok and on other websites. This is exactly what they accused China of doing. Users can adjust their advertising permissions in the app, sure. Yeah, right.

Starting point is 01:26:29 So this was always about, and it kind of backfired because it was Google. Google and Facebook, they hated this because it was taking their lunch. Their lunch money. It was billions of dollars. And now, and I'm sure these guys, I'm sure they'll run it into the ground.

Starting point is 01:26:47 There's no vision behind it. you know, fine. Yeah, they will. You're right. Yeah, I don't see it. They always have all this stuff. Boots on the ground from one of our Department of War producers, Anonymous, for obvious reasons, wants to provide some quick feedback after attempting to use the Department of War's Gen.

Starting point is 01:27:12 Now, do we recall what this Gen. A.I. was supposed to do? I don't recall. But I do recall it, but I don't recall what it's supposed to do. Well, it was going to help with operations. Oh, yeah. It was going to be a lifesaver. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:27:29 So he says right now, still the only LLM implemented is Gemini. Groch, Chat, GPT, and Claude are not accessible yet. So we tried a couple of different things. He says, the military has probably the largest corpus of data to pull from. So my first attempt, I figured I should be able to be able to. to get Gemini to format a standard naval letter, considering there's plenty of information to pull from? Nope. In fact, the amount of time it took me to generate a simple message in official formatting with multiple prompts attempting to correct it took me well beyond the time span of just creating

Starting point is 01:28:04 one from scratch. Right. This is a note, this is notable because this is the case with most AI. Second, I knew this was a long shot, but I had a brag sheet for recognizing someone for their service during the quarter, as we call it. them Sailor, Soldier, NCO, etc. of the quarter. Packages have a standard format. The brag sheet has the relevant data points to input. In theory, it should have just plugged and played what was needed. Instead, repeat of above. Last attempt, a real world case, operational planning. This was a very simple test. I grabbed grid coordinates for a known area that could support one of our rotary wing platforms, that's helicopters, for a landing zone and prompted,

Starting point is 01:28:47 would these grid coordinates support CV-22 land zone? I presume that's an Osprey. What I got was generic information about theorized capability, but no recommendation because it couldn't assess the area. While we have individuals that specifically do this analysis, I had to do this site assessment previously in my career for offhand work for on the fly, MEDAVAC, landing zones on public, LZs, landing zones, on public plan to support training cycles.

Starting point is 01:29:16 It's not a big ask, but if it can't do this basic task, I doubt it can do anything very complex. So these are three of the things that were promised that would take the Department of War into the next century of technology. And it cannot do it. It did. It took it in the next century. There is some. That is the next century. Hello.

Starting point is 01:29:41 There is some exciting news for both you and I. And this kind of goes along with my idea that AI or whatever you want to call this is really great when decentralized, when you can have it at home. Enter Gwen 3, QE-N-3 dash T-T-S. This is from the Chinese. They have open-sourced a very lightweight model, which does exactly what 11 Labs does. and you can run it on home computer stuff. And is it a GitHub? You can download it.

Starting point is 01:30:20 You can download the models. And I've tried it. What is it? Give me the name of it again. Quen? That's the, what is it? That's the, what's the big, the Chinese Amazon?

Starting point is 01:30:36 What's the Chinese Amazon? I don't know. Yeah, you do. The big, the big, the big, T-Mu? To me is T-Mu. No, no. The big one you buy all the crap on. Shimu or Shimo or what?

Starting point is 01:30:49 No. No. No. No. No, not T-Mu. The one that had the, the guy who got kicked out. The Chinese. Oh, okay.

Starting point is 01:30:58 I can't remember the name. Alibaba. Alibaba. Yeah, Elibaba, the director. Low T. Instababa. It was low T. Q-W-E-3-T-T-T-S.

Starting point is 01:31:12 They have a little example. You can run it on one of their cloud servers. I like it. It's a catchy name. No, it's not. It's a catchy name. Quinn 3, TTS. So I'll be loading this up on my Linux system.

Starting point is 01:31:30 Oh, it runs on Linux? You can run it on, I think you can run it on almost anything. It's easiest to run it on Linux, yeah. because you know you have that open open web open UI whatever you can load all the open source models on but it's good it's really surprising

Starting point is 01:31:52 and you can also sample your own voice so that's what I'll be trying that's what I've been wanting to do with 11 labs but I don't use the free version it won't let me do No 11 labs cost like $199 bucks a month I'm not I'm still not paying no but you're going to use this and you're going to love it this is that sounds you sound

Starting point is 01:32:10 Correct, sir. This has John C. DeVorek written all over it. I find this fascinating. This is exactly the problem these guys have. They're all trying to make all these goodies for everybody. And meanwhile, the China is just like, you have this for free. They're screwing with these guys.

Starting point is 01:32:27 They really are. It's good. Well, if it's as good as you say. I think I've only seen, I've only done the demo. So can I get my spuds Oakley voice? I'll take it from 11. lapse and give it to this system. I can get it for free. I can have to read a book.

Starting point is 01:32:44 Well, let me give you an example. I think they have a, I think they have it. Now, first of all, Levin Labs is a terrific product, so I'm not going to demean them. Except they just don't need to pay hundreds of dollars a year for anything. For a little

Starting point is 01:33:00 gag. Yeah. No, I agree. You don't need that. I can't find the I'll have to find the I'll just I'll just load it. I'm going to load it and we're going to test it.

Starting point is 01:33:16 Oh, hugging face demo. Here we go on hugging face. So, okay. Give me some text. Not too long just because it's a demo. Give me something for it to say. Okay. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country.

Starting point is 01:33:36 Okay. Now, describe the voice. So just describe. private, the tone. A husky female lesbian. Husky female lesbian. Okay. Any particular intonation? With a lisp. Okay. I am going to generate the audio. Zero GPU queue waiting for a GPU to become available. Ah, successfully acquired a GPU. This is exciting. We've acquired a zero GPU GPU. I'm not quite sure what that means. The progress bar is moving to the left. I see a waveform starting to appear processing 17, 19, 20 seconds of 26.3 seconds.

Starting point is 01:34:22 This is so exciting, John. We're about to hear your husky female lesbian with a list. Here we go. Here we go. Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. No list, but it wasn't bad. It was close. Yeah. Now, let me just...

Starting point is 01:34:42 It was a nice husky voice. Speaking excitedly, maybe we need to add the... Yeah, I do that. Oh, I got an error. Oh, you reach your quota. Create pro account. You didn't register. The Chinese are the same as every other Silicon Valley.

Starting point is 01:35:02 Oh, yeah, they're the same douchebags as all the other software people. Why not? I only generated two of these while testing it before the show and then I reached my quota. Thanks, hugging face. I'll give it a shot. I'll load it up and we'll have some fun with it in a week from now. We'll have some fun. All right.

Starting point is 01:35:33 Let's see. I have an ask Adam for a little side trip here. All right. All right, everybody. It's time to ask Adam. All right. What do we have? So we want to preface this by talking about.

Starting point is 01:35:44 This is from the CBS Evening News. And Barry Weiss is under nothing but relentless attack, including from your buddy, Megan Kelly, who called her a lesbian. What? According to the, there's a good article. Tina should have told me this. She always, she's always on that tip. She knows all this stuff.

Starting point is 01:36:07 I'm surprised. So she is, Barry Weiss is under attack and there's a good article in The Ringer. You should, people just look at the Ringer and find, either search for Barry Weiss or CBS News. How about Tony Dukapal who's, you know, everyone doesn't like him either? Because he's too kind of a win. Isn't he the guy that introduced Candace and her beard? Yeah, he's, he's, according to, uh, making to, uh, and Kelly, and this is secondhand, because this was written in this article,

Starting point is 01:36:44 she says that Dukapol was picked as the anchor because that's a lesbian's ideal of a man. Really? Yeah, because it went on. It's quite funny. But they go on and on, and I actually think he does a good job, to be honest about it, I think he's fine. He's as good as Tom Yamas. Yeah. And some of these other guys.

Starting point is 01:37:07 He just has to look pretty. He just look pretty and read the problem. It's not all that hard. Yeah, that's basically right. But it's the, what's the problem is, that's not correctable is the staff, the infrastructure. Once you get this, I've said this, we've said this on the show. It's kind of a theme. Don't hire woke people because once they get in your organization, they contaminate it and ruin it.

Starting point is 01:37:31 Yes, a problem. And so it's the writing in the back rooms and the reporters that are all a bunch of Democrats that are in there. and you can't get rid of them overnight. You never will. And so here's this report. So this becomes an Ask Adam because it's so stupid. This is Ask Adam. This is about the murder rate.

Starting point is 01:37:51 And this is the question. Murders dropped by more than 20% last year down to what may be the lowest murder rate in more than a century, according to a new study. The counsel on criminal justice says it crunched numbers in 40 large cities and found that carjackings and shoplifting are also down. And the cause? Mostly, it's... Ask hello. Answer the question, go. So my question is the cause of the drop of the carjackings and murder rate? What is the cause?

Starting point is 01:38:23 Don't forget, this is 100 years. Oh. A hundred years of murders. I know the answer. I know the answer. I know the answer. Okay. Climate change.

Starting point is 01:38:34 That was, that almost. Almost. And the cause, mostly, it says, a return to normal after the pandemic. Oh, close enough. Yeah. Yeah. COVID, wait a minute. COVID was 100 years ago.

Starting point is 01:38:51 Is that what they're telling us? So 100 years ago after COVID, it's gone down because of the end of COVID. Are you kidding me? What kind of analysis? What logic is it? Where's the logic? This is 100 years, not five. It should have been climate change.

Starting point is 01:39:11 It would have been much better news. Climate change would have been a better answer than that. Well, while we're doing fun stuff, picked up a Politico interview with the gay general patent, known as Scott Bessent. We had a conversation about his script writing that someone had written these scripts for him. you know, if someone's writing scripts, they're giving him one-liners, and he's good at remembering.

Starting point is 01:39:41 Listen. Some of the European leaders have gotten criticism from Democrats, people like Gavin Newsom. Cardi is actually one of the few people that Newsom has praised. He said he brought knee pads for some of the other European leaders that he thinks have been too accommodating to the president. I think Gavin Newsom may be cracking up with some of these things he's saying. I think he may be in over his hairdo. And being on the national stage is very different than being Governor of California with no signature achievements. But to say strange things like President Trump is a Tyrannosaurus rex.

Starting point is 01:40:24 What the hell does that mean? I could say Gavin Newsom is a bronosaurus with the brain the size of walnut. And if you brought the knee pads, maybe that was for his meeting with Alex Soros. I don't know. Yeah. The knee pads thing is going to haunt him forever. Yeah, but the memes are already out there. But to have Scott Besson say this, it's just, it's entertaining.

Starting point is 01:40:49 No, there's something particularly, yes, very, it's actually, it's an amplification of the insult just by the fact that it's Bessent, who's a kind of a milk-toast guy that's got all these zingers. Are you kidding me? Well, in that interview, I didn't clip it. He says, hey, I'm just a kid from South Carolina. He says, I learned to fend for myself. I kind of believe that. He just grew up to be kind of, he's just,

Starting point is 01:41:17 this whole persona says royal family, not like, I'm going to insult you with a kneepad retort. It's something funny about it. Yeah, South Carolinians are. When the Civil War broke out, South Carolina was one of the succession of states that really was pushing for a monarchy. Oh, really? Yeah, they've always been somewhat regal. The South Carolinians are regal.

Starting point is 01:41:46 They have a regality that is unparalleled in the entire country. Yeah, having been there a couple times, I can see that. They like their little palaces there. They've got those houses, man. Some of them were just amazing. Here's another one from Scott Besson, although not as lewd. This is about Alberta. Look, Alberta is a wealth of natural resources, but they won't let them build a pipeline to the Pacific.

Starting point is 01:42:16 I think we should let them come down into the U.S. And Alberta is a natural partner for the U.S. They have great resources. The Albertans are very independent people. rumors that they may have a referendum on whether they want to stay in Canada or not. Yeah. Well, it's not just a rumor. They say rumors?

Starting point is 01:42:38 Yeah, I said rumor, which I thought. It's not a rumor at all. But it may not have been Davos. That may have been earlier. But still, the sign up for the referendum has been going on for a couple weeks now. I just do have another, because Davos, you know, is kind of, wrapped up and just looking at some just trolling for some material here. Bill Gates, this is so on brand for what he says here. It was just mind-blowing that he still gets away with this.

Starting point is 01:43:14 So the AI is entering into the health system, but not just into the health system. It's all the way down to the level of the patient. So the patient is able to talk in their local language and describe what's going on. And so in it, in order to make this reality to see what works, what doesn't work. And we're thrilled that OpenAI and the Gates Foundation are committing an initiative called Horizon 1000 where we'll go into 1,000 primary health care clinics in Africa. Oh. And the goal is to make...

Starting point is 01:43:48 He's like, whatever we can do. Let's test it on the black people over there. In Africa. Much higher quality and, if possible, twice as efficient. as it is today, taking away the paperwork that needs to be done, organizing the resources, you know, so the patient knows what's available and when to come for their appointment. So there's all sorts of things that can be improved.

Starting point is 01:44:14 So it's basically a chat bot. You know, Rwanda is a great partner for the Gates Foundation. Yeah, oh, yeah, we love, we got lots of cadavers from Rwanda to test them. And a lot of things. And so, you know, we're thrilled that that's actually the first country. that this work will go into. We'll certainly also, over time, work in Kenya, South Africa, Nigeria. Oh, yeah.

Starting point is 01:44:38 And you have different systems that we have to connect into. Although not this initiative, there's obviously a lot going on in India as well. And so, you know, over the next couple of years, I would expect developing world health may even get ahead of rich world because the need is so great. And the government's increasing this and making sure that it's moving at full speed. So basically, you go in, the chatbot says,

Starting point is 01:45:08 oh, you need a shot. Clearly, just stick your arm in here. We'll give you a shot. This guy is a ghoul. It's a total ghoul. And while we're leaving the World Health Organization, your state is reentering. California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced

Starting point is 01:45:26 the state is joining the World Health Organization's Global Outbreak Alert and Response Network. There's more. The announcement comes a day after the U.S. formally withdrew from the WHO and is the latest move by Newsom to move California away from federal health policy. But wait, this is your state. This is what your money is going to be spent on. And meanwhile, according to an expenditure line item in the governor's proposed 2026-27 state budget, the governor is requesting $33,000 for a self-portrait. No details on who's going to be painting that portrait or where it's going to be displayed. The full budget is paid at about $348 billion.

Starting point is 01:46:07 Okay, so two things. One, $348 billion. And self-portrait? Is he going to pay himself? That's what I said. That makes no sense. Well, that'd be a stick figure. But it'd be, you know, he needs $33,000.

Starting point is 01:46:23 So he's going to paint himself. So obviously that was not misreported. Yeah. But as usual. hilarious. Just hilarious. It is funny. Yeah. Let's see.

Starting point is 01:46:38 What else do we? Do you want to hear Elon from Davos? He was there? Oh, yeah. Well, he. Oh, yeah. That's right. I saw him.

Starting point is 01:46:47 Yeah, with Fink. Fink. Who was quick to point out everywhere. I'm an interim coach here. Just interim. I'm only interim. I'm not part of the world economic form. I'm just interim.

Starting point is 01:46:57 You have to keep saying it everywhere. Sticking his finger up. Interim. Entrum. So he's got... So he's the guy running it right now. He's running it. Yeah.

Starting point is 01:47:08 He got the other guy kicked out so he could take it over so they could do some deals. It's all about the deals. Worldwide. Yeah, it's all about the deals. Of course. And so he's going to, yeah, he's in tight with Trump. Him and Trump are buddies. In fact, one of the overall.

Starting point is 01:47:22 overlooked details about his, their friend, even though he's a Democrat, Fink, Jewish, by the way. Make sure to note that. Yes, trollroom. Take note. Troll room. So Fink is the guy who actually bought C.K. Hutchinson's ports all over the world through Black's Black Rock. And that includes Rotterdam, by the way. He owns half of Rotterdam's ports now. Oh, well, he's in the drug trade then. And he is the one that made the Panama deal go through. He's the one who bought the ports from the Chinese with Black Rock,

Starting point is 01:48:03 which made it easy. So Trump didn't have to make a big fuss or go to war or anything. So Trump and him are in bed as pals. And Trump, and as a favor to Trump, he's the one who told Newsom he had to cancel his speech at Davos. And he could be interviewed or something. He got booted out, got pissed off about it. That's why he was so irked about the knee pads and everything else because he thought that, you know, he's being railroaded, which he was because he shouldn't be there in the

Starting point is 01:48:33 first place. He's a governor of California. What's he doing at Davos? Third largest economy in the world. Fourth. And so there is falling fast. He said third, though. He said third, though.

Starting point is 01:48:43 He said third. Well, he's wrong. And so you end up with this craziness going on between fings. and Trump, which is not really being noticed enough. That's good. I didn't know that he had basically done the Panama deal. Yeah. Oh, that's very interesting.

Starting point is 01:49:05 Of course, it's our money. Isn't it the U.S. government money? Whatever. You can sure it's not Fink's money. No, it's not his. So Elon is at Davos. I have to say Elon is underwhelming. He doesn't have a good rap anymore.

Starting point is 01:49:22 The stuff he says is like, okay, whatever. And he and all these AI guys, whether it's him or whether it's Altman, and it's a, it's a milieu, it's a clique. It's creepy. And it's, you're right. It's anti-climat. It's a lax charisma. Lacks charisma. They all are looking up to the left, you know, which, what is that in an LLP, if you

Starting point is 01:49:50 look if your eyes look up to the left you're trying to visualize something you're dreaming you're dreaming you're dreaming you're making a dream you're in a dream world you're in a dream world and you got talk like difficult because you know i'm a genius i mean what a start i mean what you think of it is that if you have a large number of humanoid robots, the economic output is the average productivity. A poor robot times the number of robots. Wow. Wow.

Starting point is 01:50:33 Let's listen to that calculation again. Wait, I got to listen to that. That was so dumb. Large number of humanoid robots. The economic output is... The economic output of a large number of large, number of humanoid robots is the average productivity per robot times the number of robots. No.

Starting point is 01:50:57 No. No, no, no, no. Say it's not so. That I never would have come up with that calculation. Right. Right. And actually, my prediction is in the benign scenario. Benign scenario.

Starting point is 01:51:11 That we will, the robots will actually make so many robots in AI that they will actually saturate all human. needs. You wouldn't be able to even think of something to ask the robot for. Yes, yes, I have something. Could you please do this podcast for us? That would be very helpful, humanoid robot. At a certain point. Like, there will be such an abundance of goods and services. Because my prediction is there'll be more robots than people. But how do you then have human purpose in that scenario? Yeah, I mean, you know, nothing's perfect.

Starting point is 01:51:50 Kill all humans. You have human purpose to kill all robots. But, I mean, it is a necessary... Listen to this. Like, you can't have both. You can't have work that has to be done and amazing abundance for all. What? Because if it's work that has to be done, then you...

Starting point is 01:52:14 And only some people can do it. it, then you can't have abundance. It's narrow. He's narrow. He's a mess. Yeah, well, wait for it. It's coming at the end. Can I say something?

Starting point is 01:52:25 Yeah, of course. He always underperforms in front of art. He's not, like most people, supposedly, they can't perform in front of an audience. He's not a theater kid. He's good on one-on-one interviews when he's with somebody and he can focus on them and skewer him. But when he's playing to a large audience, he's all. always like this. He's not good. He should even do it. Well, this is a

Starting point is 01:52:49 one-on-one panel between him and think. Yeah, but there's a bunch of people watching it. Yeah. Well, listen to his vision. You can't have abundance. It's narrow. It's narrow. Exactly. So, but if you have

Starting point is 01:53:05 billions of humanoid robots, I think it will be, I think everyone on Earth is going to have one and going to want one. Because Because who wouldn't want a robot to... All right. What do you think his examples are of what our robots of the future will do?

Starting point is 01:53:26 Well, what they should do. They do the dishes and vacuum the floor and they run errands and they scratch your back. You know, I'm assuming it's very safe. Watch over your kids. Take care of your pets. Two of the joys in life. Yeah. You want to do the robots are supposed to free you up so you can do that activity.

Starting point is 01:53:51 I want to play with my pet. I want to play with the dog and you want to, you know, tumble around with the kids, sure. Here comes the worst one. If you have elderly parents, a lot of friends might have said they have elderly parents. It's very difficult to take care of them. Expensive. Yeah. Oh, you know what?

Starting point is 01:54:09 Have the robot kill your parents. There you go. Now you're being realistic. It's expensive and they're just on enough people to take care of the, there aren't enough young people to take care of the old people. Wait a minute. If we have robots, then yes, we can have the young people taking care of the old people. By the way, it's enjoyable for the old people.

Starting point is 01:54:30 And for young people, they might learn something like, don't let the robots take over. This is so. Yeah, we teach him something. I mean, you know, you know, when I was a kid, they didn't have robots. I almost expected to say, you know, the robot will know when you're out of milk in the fridge and it'll order new milk for you. That's coming.

Starting point is 01:54:54 Well, that would be what I would expect. And with that, before our children kill us, I want to thank you for your courage, say in the morning to you, the man who put the C in 53 Mexican consulates, say hello to my friend on the other end, the one, the only Mr. John C. You need a morning. You know what's on the ground, subs in the water. And all the games are nice out there. In the morning to the trolls in the troll room. Let me count you for second.

Starting point is 01:55:31 2076. Today, it is a snow day. That's why everybody's inside. And couldn't go to the mailbox to send us a check. Because this will be one of the shorter segments we do in the lifetime. of this show. The whole idea is value for value. Then we give you value if you don't find valuable. We're not giving them enough value. I guess our value is low. Well, you know, we're beating up a lot of dead dogs here. No, we're not. We've got. Dead horses. I'm sorry.

Starting point is 01:56:02 We're giving people a whole new perspective on what's happening in Minneapolis. No, I think, no, I don't think we're beating up dead dogs. We're doing. Dead horses. Or horses. We're doing We're not doing what all the other programs do, which is. Oh, that's the problem. You're right. We're not being in the podcast industrial complex and the circle jerk. Yeah, we're not saying, He killed him.

Starting point is 01:56:33 No, he didn't. He didn't have a gun. Rewind the video. Let's take a look. What do you see? What do you think? No, we're not doing Zapruder analysis. We're analyzing your world from a different point of view.

Starting point is 01:56:44 We hope you find it valuable. And you should be listening to us on one of those very valuable modern podcast apps so that you can get the bat signal when we go live because we do the show live. And of course, once we publish it within 90 seconds, you will know. What? We're doing it live. When did we go live? No one told you.

Starting point is 01:57:07 Value for value is measured in multiple ways, time, talent, or treasure. Meetups are appreciated doing boots on the ground. Like we had a good Boots on the Ground report, anonymous Department of War employee from the Navy, apparently. Yeah, this is all helpful. This is what makes the show, of course, is that we have thousands of producers, not like Don Lemon, who just has some FBI handlers.

Starting point is 01:57:36 We have actual producers who know stuff because they are in the workplace. They are out in the real world. we feel that we are close to you. We are connected. We also have people who are pretty good at AI stuff and they like to prompt a lot. And we want to thank Blue Acorn. Blue Acorn, who I think is a real digital artist. Obviously, he knew what he was doing when he created this art for episode 1836. We titled that Big Bulley. His exploding tree art was spot on. And everybody got it. It was meta to the max.

Starting point is 01:58:16 It was the perfect time for this type of, if you look at this tree exploding with the, with the googly eyes and the other trees behind it all flipping out, I think it was a perfectly timed, well-executed hijack of cultural memology. I think so too. I like the piece a lot. I like the two pieces from him. I also like T-Rex Trump, which I thought was competitive.

Starting point is 01:58:43 It was. And so he had heard us going on and on about the greatness of Darren O'Neill and Jeffrey Rhea and said to himself, what, what, am I, what a chopped liver? And so he cranked out a bunch of stuff because he's not, obviously he's in the same category. Well, a couple of these guys are back. Also, hello, Bob Dietrich. He's moving up. He's trying to do stuff.

Starting point is 01:59:10 Blue Acorn. Who else was back? I saw a couple of. of Matthew Dropco. People are back. Scaramanga. You know, a lot of people... Once they start singling people out, the ones who don't get mentioned...

Starting point is 01:59:25 Yeah, they go away. Which is the way it should be, by the way. They get irked. And the next thing you know, they're cranking out stuff because they have to, you know, they want their chops. They got chops.

Starting point is 01:59:36 They want to be some recognition. Like Nick the rat, who, you know, he's doing stuff, but it's... I know. I think he's trying to get into the AI swing of things. It's not quite there for him yet. It takes time. It does. It will happen. Boy, I see a Parker Pauley showed up today. I mean, Eli the coffee guy is doing art stuff now. So I like the diversity. I like the diversity of artists and the diversity of models used.

Starting point is 02:00:07 Finally, finally, we're seeing something different. So thank you very much, Blue Acorn for the artwork for our previous episode. So no agenda art generator.com. We should just have a large language model built right into this thing. Now I think about it. So everybody could participate on equal footing and create all of the same slop. As part of this value for value, we always appreciate receiving treasure. The third of the three T's extremely important to keep the show going. Many want it to go for four more years.

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Starting point is 02:01:12 my scroll was off. Windows. I'll do the top too then. Damaskine. Do you think it's Damaskine or Damaskini? I have no idea. He's from Boston, or she is from Boston, Massachusetts, 34375.

Starting point is 02:01:33 Just Damaskin. I think it's Damaskin. Now, is it Damaskin or Damaskin? Just two different stories. You're asking the wrong guy. Ah, with the emphasis on this emphasis. on the massan oh damaskin damaskin oh okay all right damaskin thank you 34375 and there is geoffrey alicea bethlin pennsylvania 333.33 double up karma for you you've got karma and there's sir mark and there's sir mark bendi bus oh i'm sorry bend a cow which i mean it means bus in polish uh bend a cow bend a cow

Starting point is 02:02:12 Kowalski, Kowalsk. Benkowls. I think it's Bendikowskowski. Bendikowski. Bendikowski. Yeah, Bendikowski. Bendikowski. Which is Bendy bus.

Starting point is 02:02:24 He's in Warsaw, Poland. Now you're talking. Yeah. The signal is reaching all. Some boots on the ground. What do you think is going on? The signal is reaching Poland. The dipole is dynamite.

Starting point is 02:02:37 It came up at 333333. And he says Adam and John, Curva love you. Curva. What does that mean? It's kind of a Polish semi-swear word. More like... Somebody loves it.

Starting point is 02:02:52 Like, crap. Crap, I love you. Something like that. The comics are blogger, no. He taught me the word. Hey, and there's David Byrne of the Talking Heads from Staten Island. We don't know if it's David Byrne from the talking heads,

Starting point is 02:03:05 but it is David's Byrne. That would be Burns. This is Byrne. Oh, yeah, it's Byrne. 234, Associate Executive Producer, for you a real credit. He says, don't forget to tip your waitress and try the veal. All right. Thank you, Staten Island. And here he is, our La Jolla Salt Corporation representative at 21060. Are you stuck in a linguistic

Starting point is 02:03:27 rut? This is the only note we got, actually. That's the only note except for Linda. Are you stuck in a linguistic rut? By the way, at the end of the day, this and that. And the other thing, clinging to to your lingo. You know, Mark Levin, by the way, if you listen to Mark Levine. Oh, boy, here we go. He can't go five seconds

Starting point is 02:03:49 saying, and so on and so forth. Oh, boy. Or so forth. And so on and so forth. And there's a whole bunch of these things and so on and so forth. Okay. It's just ridiculous.

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Starting point is 02:07:12 Make sure that your credit card or whatever payment system you're using is still valid because those do tend to expire from time to time. Thank you again to our executive and associate executive producers for episode 1837. Our formula is this. We go out. We hit people in the mouth. I have two Ukraine clips that we can get out of the way and keep up with that a bit. Okay. One is an analysis from Colonel McGregor, but the first one I want to play is the Ukraine update.

Starting point is 02:07:58 This is from yesterday in NPR. U.S. officials say progress was made in trilateral talks with Russia and Ukraine to end Moscow's nearly four-year-long war. NPR's Tamara Keith reports. The U.S. team spoke to reporters after two days of meetings in Abu Dhabi with high-level delegations from Ukraine and Russia. The officials said, quote, just getting them to the table to talk is a big step. and, quote, the conversations were very respectful. Even if there were no significant breakthroughs, they said having everyone in the same room was progress after months of at times frustrating shuttle diplomacy.

Starting point is 02:08:33 Major sticking points remain, including how territory will be divided up and the terms of de-escalation if there is a deal. The officials say the next meeting has already been set for a week from now, again, in Abu Dhabi. Meanwhile, Russia launched hundreds of drones and missiles at Ukraine's two largest cities as the talks went on. This is NPR News. Did you hear Zelensky at Davos? Oh, I don't know if I had. I have a minute 10 report. It's kind of funny because, well, you'll hear it in this clip.

Starting point is 02:09:12 Ukraine's president Volodymyr Zelensky slammed Europe in his address to the World Economic Forum in Davos for their in action, describing it as a lost continent. In his scathing critique, Zelensky says Europe is stuck in an endless cycle of failing to defend itself or decisively supporting Ukraine, likening the situation to the U.S. film Groundhog Day. Europe. What about the ceasefire itself? Who can help make it happen? Europe loves to discuss the future, but avoids taking action today.

Starting point is 02:09:43 Action that defines what kind of future we will have. That's the problem. Why can President Trump stop tankers from the shadow fleet and seize oil, but Europe doesn't? Russian oil is being transported right along European shores. That oil funds the war against Ukraine. That oil helps destabilize Europe. So Russian oil must be stopped and confiscated and sold for Europe's benefit. Why not?

Starting point is 02:10:13 His address followed a private meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump to discuss the latest on the ground and ongoing peace efforts. I think Trump literally gave him a piece of paper. Say this. He had a meeting with the Trump. And then he said, hey, these Europeans, they're still taking Russian oil from ghost ships. They're funding the war against us. Hmm. Yeah, you know, what you said was kind of offhanded, but I think you actually might be correct.

Starting point is 02:10:45 I wasn't, it wasn't that offhanded. I mean, when I heard the report, I'm like, well, that's obvious why he said that. Trump said, don't, don't screw it up, man. Say this. Those guys suck in Europe. They suck. They suck. Well, he's not wrong.

Starting point is 02:11:02 No. All right. So we go to, Colonel McGregor, he's got this show, you know. And doesn't answer your calls. No, no, but he'll do anybody else's podcast, but he won't come and do an interview. us because, you know, we're just the... Yeah, the best podcast. You might ask a real question, but he does have an interesting little screed

Starting point is 02:11:26 this type of analysis here that is worth listening to. President Trump doesn't seem to want to kill the bad ideas. You know, he's got his own set of bad ideas. He could have gone into NATO and said, listen, this is over. The United States will not support war with Russia. We want to normalize our relations with Russia. We want to do business with Russia. Russia is not interested in conquering Europe.

Starting point is 02:11:54 So sit down, shut up, and get on board with us. And if you're not going to get on board with us, that's fine. Then get on another ship because we're not sailing to war. He could have done that. Yeah. Has he done it? No. He hasn't.

Starting point is 02:12:10 And then he looks, look at a place like Kiev under this man, Zelensky. Zelensky is a defeated regime. Ukraine has been defeated if not destroyed. Shut up. We're going to sort this out and you're going to live with what we come up with. People had common sense 100, 200 years ago when they settled these wars. They took that position. But again, when did they do that?

Starting point is 02:12:34 They did it after the Napoleonic wars because they'd seen millions of people die. They'd seen cities and towns destroyed. They didn't want that anymore. It took 100 years to forget it and go back to war again in 1914. No, that's from a historical standpoint, pretty good. Yeah. Yeah, the Europeans, they're nuts. Well, along those lines, a little long, a little over two minutes.

Starting point is 02:13:06 Oh. I know. Well, if you get tired of it, then we can stop it. Why do you ever get to this two-minute rule? I don't remember us ever establishing it, but we have. I like 130 myself. In fact, I'll cut up. Well, I prefer one.

Starting point is 02:13:19 Yeah. But I use the two-minute rule, and I always feel crappy when I look and it comes out of 205. Yeah, well, that's exactly why I'm prefacing it by saying I feel it's too long. Yeah, you're apologizing in advance. Yeah, I feel it's too long. Generally speaking, if it's too long, it's usually good. Well, you don't like the guy, so it might not be. But on the periphery of Davos, there's all these.

Starting point is 02:13:45 other little institutions and interviews, you know, it's kind of like the Academy Awards in a way. You got to this tent and you do an interview there. You go to that tent. Or you've got to talk to E Entertainment. Does E Entertainment, they go belly up? Are they gone? Is that still around? Not that I know of.

Starting point is 02:14:01 Are they still around? E news, I think, is folded. But the E network's still around. I think they still have a mic on the red carpet. I have to look into it now. So I do. I think we both do this. I'm always cutting out pauses, particularly the, like France 24,

Starting point is 02:14:19 they leave long pauses. Whenever someone's being translated, they always start with, and the voice comes over, what I was trying to say. I cut out all the waka-tac-tac-waka. Cut that out. Yeah, it's annoying. You know, it doesn't do anything.

Starting point is 02:14:34 I leave a snippet. Yeah, about that much. So this is Janus Verufakis. Roll eyes now. Now, what's interesting about him, and this is in his wheelhouse, and this is not one of those AI videos that I get tricked into a couple weeks ago. This is him on stage being interviewed. He was the finance minister, later I think prime minister, but the finance minister of Greece, when Europe, when we had the euro crisis and they blamed it all on Greece. And they, yeah, it was so bad that Dutch people were refusing to go to Greek restaurants.

Starting point is 02:15:13 That's how crazy Europe is. The Greek screwed us, man, so we're not going to support their... Is that right? Yeah, don't you remember that? No, I don't remember I'm not going to Greek restaurants. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. I could probably look it up on Binget and find it. Yeah, they wouldn't go to Greek restaurants and everyone hated it.

Starting point is 02:15:34 Like, why are we in the North suffering for you in the South? It was the pigs, Portugal, Italy, Greece, and Spain. Remember it now? The pigs? I remember the pigs. Yeah, the pigs. And so the IMF swooped in, you know, with, I want to say, Goldman Sachs, probably a couple of other big banks. And they said, all right. They ruined the place.

Starting point is 02:15:58 Yeah, they ruined it and gave them austerity. So Verifakis has a bone to pick. And he is explaining why the European Union is cooked, toast, and will not work and is bound to fail. Europe made a grievous error in 1992 by creating a federal money. The idea was to create a monetary federation and then on top of that build a political union. But there was a Cambridge economist, Nicholas Calder, who in 1970 in the new statesman, warned Europeans against doing this. He said, if you make the mistake of creating a monetary union as a first stepping stone

Starting point is 02:16:40 towards a political union, you will fail because. the monetary union will create an almighty economic crisis, that will poison the well of any further consolidation, and then it will be impossible to consolidate. We had a chance with the euro crisis to create a political union that goes along with the monetary union. We failed. We failed bismally. Instead, we created new forms of rolling over the debts and, and, you consolidating that which cannot be consolidated. Then we had the pandemic, which was another great opportunity. The result of these failures and this delay is a complete political fragmentation.

Starting point is 02:17:24 You know, 10 years ago, 15 years ago, there was Angela Merkel. You know, she was my greater political opponent. I had many clashes with her. But at least she had a political capital to bring Europe together. By delaying all this time, spending 15 years not investing at all, zero net investment in the European Union as a result of the mishandling of the inevitable euro crisis, Germany is industrializing. So now Germany is re-nationalizing its policies.

Starting point is 02:17:54 The single market is finished, so the Brexit discussion is gone, because there is not even a single market, only on paper there is a single market now. So this fragmentation means that you can see Trump appears. Trump loads the European Union. He hates the European Union much more than he hates China. for reasons of his own. And what is Europe doing? They are running around like headless chickens.

Starting point is 02:18:18 They are putting forward a preposterous military kinsinism, which is neither necessary nor feasible. Europe does not have the capacity to create a military complex. It will never have the capacity, if you want, we can discuss why. So this is why I'm saying with pain in the heart that Europe is simply slipping into irrelevance.

Starting point is 02:18:38 I think he's right. Are you going to let that go longer? You liked it, huh? Yeah. Yeah. I would like to hear his conversation about why they can't create a military industrial complex. Well, they don't have power anymore in Germany to even make steel. You mean literal electricity when you say power.

Starting point is 02:19:01 Yes, actual electricity is off the table. I still see those videos of them imploding their nuclear plants. Dopes. and they're doubling down. You know, what did I have here? I got a note here, Amsterdam. Amsterdam. Now, they do have a nut job mayor,

Starting point is 02:19:23 but Amsterdam is banning advertising of fossil fuels and meat. So you may no longer advertise air, cruises, combustion combustion vehicles, McDonald's because they can't show a hamburger. Yeah. Yeah. And this is...

Starting point is 02:19:52 How do people elect people like this? Well, what happens is, you know, it's just like the bigger parliament. They have to put together a coalition. So they have, the mayor is from Krun Links, which is green left. I've never heard a better description for a party ever. the green lefties, and the party for animals, Partai for the Deir.

Starting point is 02:20:16 So they have, you know, they got, they have to get something. So basically the environmentalist plus PETA. Yeah, pretty much. Yeah, environmentalist plus PETA. Yeah, so they're banning that. Yeah, it's a mess. That brings me to a clip that I wonder, I don't know if this is legit, I can't document it, but I'm going to have to start, as you recall, five years ago,

Starting point is 02:20:41 we used to do Prime Minister Question Time on it as a regular issue on the show. Yes. And this comes from that. Supposedly, I don't know if this is AI or not, but I believe it to be real. And this is a Green member of the UK Parliament asking a question, which is a very simple question that could be easily answered. It's probably reasonable.

Starting point is 02:21:02 But Starmor goes off the deep end and condemns the Green Party instead of answering the question with any real foundation, but try playing it. For decades, our rivers, lakes, and seas have paid the price of a failing system. So the water white paper is welcome first step in beginning

Starting point is 02:21:21 to set things right. What is she talking about here? It's hard to get into it. She's talking about water pollution based on farming practices, which contribute to rivers and streams being polluted by, you know, chemicals. That's helpful. For decades, our rivers, lakes and seas have paid

Starting point is 02:21:37 the price of a failing system so the water white paper is a welcome first step in beginning to set things right but there's a glaring gap agricultural pollution contributes 40% of the pollution in our waterways that merits only one single page

Starting point is 02:21:52 in this white paper can the PM tell me why on earth this is the case and when he will start working with farmers to support river friendly farming practices and treat agricultural pollution as seriously as sewage pollution Thank you.

Starting point is 02:22:07 We inherited a real mess on water and we're taking the most effective and far-reaching measures to deal with it. But I have to say, as someone who stood to lead her party, I wonder what she makes of how her leader is responding to this global uncertainty. Because what he's saying is this is the time, this is the moment to withdraw from NATO. This is the time to kick the US out of our military bases. This is the time to negotiate, hear this with Putin to give up our nuclear deterrent. Putin, be very quick on the line for that one. It's as reckless and irresponsible as their plan to legalize heroin and crack cocaine. That's the Green Party now.

Starting point is 02:22:46 High on drugs, soft on Putin. Wow. What a moron. There's no reason for him to do that. No. I wonder what the context was if they were talking about Putin. I'm going to have to start watching PMQT again. I'm glad you brought up British Parliament because,

Starting point is 02:23:06 I also have a clip from British Parliament. This is Lord Young, and he is part of the Free Speech Union. So, you know, whenever he talks, no one's there, which is kind of funny. Think about it. That's typical, yeah. And there's a law that he and his free speech union take exception to. My Lord, I declare my interest as the director of the Free Speech Union, and I congratulate the four new members on their excellent speeches.

Starting point is 02:23:36 I want to draw your Lordship's House attention to just one section of the Employment Rights Act and its impact on the hospitality sector, namely Section 21, which extends the liability of employers for the harassment of their employees to third parties. From October of this year, employers will have a duty to protect their workers from third parties. I should make clear that we're not talking about third-party sexual harassment, which they were already law before, but third-party non-sexual harassment. And what does that mean for the hospitality sector? It means employers will have to take all reasonable steps, those are the words in the Act, to protect their employees from harassment by customers. That might not sound too onerous until you factor in that harassment includes indirect harassment, which has been defined by the Employment Tribunal, as including overheard conversations, remarks, comments, jokes that an employee may find offensive or upsetting in virtue of their protected characteristics.

Starting point is 02:24:50 And it's for that reason that the Free Speech Union has been referring to Section 21 as the banter ban. The banter ban. So if your customers... Oh my God. Did I hear what I heard? Yes, you did. you heard what you heard. So if someone... I mean, in other words,

Starting point is 02:25:09 they want to ban people from mumbling. Yes. Or if you make a little joke in there, and the staff is offended by your joke, and they call that the banter. I think they should call this the noodle boy offense ban. Noodle boy, yeah. Also known as New Bob.

Starting point is 02:25:29 I mean, this is how you destroy a country. But wait, we have our own. little problems here at home. My friend sent me this this morning from the Harvard T.H. Chan's, what was that? It was a squeak. Yeah. Yeah. You got a mouse in your pocket?

Starting point is 02:25:50 Yeah. This is from the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. That Chan is, I think is Zuckerberg's wife, isn't it? Didn't they put the money in? Oh, that could be. Yeah. I think so. I'm pretty sure.

Starting point is 02:26:04 Yep. Yep. Thanks to research led by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, the American Psychiatric Association APA, this added a new term, a new mental disorder into their diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, also known as DSM. This is the handbook for classifying and diagnosing mental health conditions used by mental health care providers, the country. Are you ready for it? No. The new, I'll wait until you're ready. I'm ready. All right. The, so this is the new condition, mental health condition. Moral injury. And I will give you the description of moral injury. It is psychological harm

Starting point is 02:27:01 incurred from committing, witnessing, or being subject to actions that violate, one's moral code. That is now a mental condition. Moral injury. Well, that explains a lot. And you can now get meds for it, I guess. Well, of course. Moral injury.

Starting point is 02:27:27 The DSM should be outlawed. That thing is just the license to give people SSRI. Drugs. Drugs, yeah. SSRIs for everything. nuts. Hey, you're going to love this. Your theory about the emergency that prompted the return of our astronauts from the International Space Station,

Starting point is 02:27:54 would you like to reiterate your theory? Yes, there was a pregnancy that caused in space and they couldn't take a chance on it. They couldn't give birth in space because there's no, you know, the right doctors aren't up there or anything. They had to shut, you know, and they're not supposed to have sex as far as I know. I'd get pregnant up there, but she did, this woman. And that's why she was part of the team. And they hustled them all back to the United States, quietly to take care of the problem.

Starting point is 02:28:23 So we have a baby. So we have not been told who had the medical emergency because, of course, we wouldn't want to violate HIPAA laws. Oh, no. And by the way, there's three males and one female that came back. Mm-hmm. So here are two NASA astronauts who are talking about this incident, and they really are so happy that the equipment on board was there to diagnose the issue

Starting point is 02:28:52 and get these astronauts home quickly. But I think you'll be interested in what they say. The ultrasound technology has gotten better on planet Earth, and we've taken that into space. And having a portable ultrasound machine helped us in this situation. We were able to take a look. of things that we had and didn't have. So when we had this emergency, the ultrasound machine

Starting point is 02:29:12 came in super handy. So I'd recommend a portable ultrasound machine in the future for sure for all space flights. It really helped. NASA made all the right decisions. In my opinion, this is a really excellent example of risk analysis and decision making, and I'm

Starting point is 02:29:28 very proud of the decision they made. But sometimes things happen and surprises happen and the team was ready. And that was like Zina said, preparation was super important. an ultrasound machine. Yeah, huh. You know, being a future grandfather,

Starting point is 02:29:46 I love the ultrasound pictures and the videos and the heartbeat and everything. And that's ultrasonic technology. And it was the right gear to have on board. John, I think you have nailed it, my friend. Oh, I'm absolutely convinced I nailed it. But there could be someone with a tumor. Ultrasons is good for that too. It finds, you know.

Starting point is 02:30:08 So they can wheeze a lot. But the way the woman in that particular clip you played, the way that woman, the female, was so gleeful. They did the right thing. They got her home to have her baby is all she didn't say. But she might as well have said it. It's so good. It seems to me just to confirm, not confirm,

Starting point is 02:30:31 but confirm the speculation. It's so good. I just I just love it I mean But why don't they Why don't they just tell us That's because you know Then we have this whole other

Starting point is 02:30:44 You know Then it's a workspace Then you have the how do you fucking space problem Okay Not a problem but the questions Because we all want to know Then it becomes a topic of discussion That nobody wants to have

Starting point is 02:30:57 We all want to know Where they floating around at the time Or You know How do you do it You know was it, you know, with a spinning maybe in the void? I mean, you just, just too many, it brings up too many.

Starting point is 02:31:13 They don't want it at a press conference. They don't want Carolyn Levitt trying to explain it. Well, the way I understand it. All right, I've got one more for you. This is one of my personal gripes. And, of course, people are sending me clips now about it. This is Olive Aeronautics Model A, part electric road car, part flying car. It's currently in testing and closely watched by the FAA under its airworthiness

Starting point is 02:31:40 certificate. Alive can land on any surface anywhere and take off from any surface anywhere. There does not need to be built any kind of heliports, vertipers or anything like that. Olive co-founder Jim McCovney says he has 3500 pre-orders at 300,000 a pot and production is underway. But some experts say flying cars are not ready for public roadways and skies. to regulations and new product headwinds. Currently, the FAA would require a pilot's license, which is expensive and time-consuming. Flying cars need to be light, but also meet road worthiness testing standards. Some believe there are better technologies, namely air taxis, which are like smaller helicopters, and they cost roughly the same as the Olliffe Model A.

Starting point is 02:32:29 The Covney acknowledges air taxis are a competitor, but says his main thing, rivals are leading EV companies. We're trying to make exactly same or similar car as Tesla lucid in the reveal, but with the capability of vertically taking off and flying. NASA and the FAA are working on the framework of advanced air mobility. The concepts being evaluated include the creation of corridors for air taxis, drones, and commercial flights. noise, travel times, infrastructure, future airspace, and of course, safety.

Starting point is 02:33:05 The company, though, is still bullish on his startup company. I do think we'll actually have a majority of the cars with some kind of a flying capability. Okay. So I just... I heard the number 33 in there. Oh, yeah. So a couple things about this. Because I've been following this one very closely.

Starting point is 02:33:26 This is at Aleph, A-E-F-E-F-A-R-O. I would like you to take a look at this because you'll recognize the car. This is basically a go-cart with bicycle wheels that they've put a... Give me the spelling again. A-L-E-F dot arrow, A-E-R-O. When you see it, you go, oh, yeah, this thing. And they have this constant video of this... It's almost like a really...

Starting point is 02:33:56 rickety thing with these bicycle tires and it lifts off and it jumps over a Tesla cyber truck and then lands. Like this is the technology that they have. So there's no person in it. It's a fiberglass body around this, a very small frame with these little teeny weeny tires. I don't even know if you can get over 40 miles an hour with it on the road. In fact, they never show it driving. They only show it doing this little hop. A couple things.

Starting point is 02:34:28 This company keeps touting that they have an airworthiness certificate. They are allowed to test at an airfield. It's not like, oh, it's airworthy. You can go and fly it wherever you want. No, that's just a lie. The other thing is... It looks like a turd. Yes, it is a turd.

Starting point is 02:34:49 The other thing is they always keep saying, you've got three and a half thousand people already pre-ordered. If you look at the website, you can order a... 33 was the number. I think it's the... You missed it. 3,300. You can buy a place in line for 150 bucks.

Starting point is 02:35:08 So it's not like people put down $300,000. This is a scam operation with a flying turd that you can't even sit in. and they keep bringing this guy up. I don't know why they keep calling the first flying car. There's been so many of these things. Yeah, it's crazy. Now, I am kind of bullish on this new battery technology, which we talked about, the donut lab.

Starting point is 02:35:38 I don't know if you had a chance to look at it. Yeah, I looked into it. So I did get one of our engineers who was looked into it. He says, I'll just read his note. He says, to work in a PC board factory in Santa Clara back in 8283. I'm an Army radio maintenance technician, also worked for Sony building TV studios. He says, the way this would work and the way he understands it, you use the same techniques as making IC chips, placing billions of tiny capacitors in a small

Starting point is 02:36:09 space. Due to their size and chemical properties, they would act like a mix between a battery and a super capacitor, which you mentioned. They would be quite easy to produce and would pack a lot of energy into a small package. What called my eye was their test rig. In my mind, the whole battery would melt, including the cables and connectors if that much amperage was fed in. There's always resistance that turns into heat. The BYD engineer, it's all from his website, said you cannot have all those properties in

Starting point is 02:36:40 the battery at the same time. You always have to drop out on one of them. It's physics. For me, it's the heat, but with a clever battery management system, it might work. Think of the PCM-style LED drivers. I wonder what JCD has to say about this. Well, there's no capacitance of any sort because they make a point of saying it's a battery,

Starting point is 02:37:03 not a hybrid capacitor battery or anything like that. So that's bull crap. And it turns out that there's a company out of Finland called Nordic Nano. Yes. And they developed a technology, which they sold to these guys, which is a battery technology that uses a lot of very high-end graphene and nanotubes

Starting point is 02:37:27 and all sorts of titanium oxide to coat the nanotubes. And it apparently can produce all these numbers and may or may not be manufacturable. I think the manufacturability is the issue here. But there's some possibility that all this is true. True. I think as I read an interview with the Finn guy as well, and they basically said, the one thing the Finns don't do

Starting point is 02:37:57 is lie. So. They don't. They drink a lot. I'm going to show my food by donate to No agenda. Imagine all the people who could do that. Oh yeah, that'd be fab. Yeah.

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Starting point is 02:44:17 There's so many. I mean, today's a record breaker. I always try to have sex at least in April as well. I mean? There you go. It's a low T. I don't know anybody named April, so I can't do that. No agenda.

Starting point is 02:44:33 Like a party, the No Agenda Meetups. And, of course, the meetups take place worldwide. You definitely want to go to at least one of these in your lifetime. I guarantee you once you've gone to one, you will want to go to more, probably with the same group. We do have a cancellation. Sunday was supposed to be the Indy N.A. Shill shiny New Year meetup at 3 o'clock. Is that today? Yes.

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Starting point is 02:47:18 It's a party. We've got John's tip of the day coming up. I'm a little bit bummed because Tina wasn't able to go to Costco to get your last tip of the day, which sounded like a good El Chippo wine right up my alley. It was really good, actually. I'm sure it is. Now, before we do anything, though, we have to choose our end of show ISO,

Starting point is 02:47:38 which we do in this segment of the show. I think I've come with some good ones for today. Oh, okay. So here we go. For four more years and possibly far beyond. It's Heather. Does them by your voice. That's Heather.

Starting point is 02:47:54 That's Heather from the Dark Horse podcast. You know, Heather. For four more years and possibly far beyond. Okay. Here's another one. This isn't easy to do. Okay. I think that's also a candidate.

Starting point is 02:48:12 And this one, this may just take the cake. They'll never be able to replace these guys with AI. Okay. I'm going to go into an abeyance mode and push mine off. Really? give you that last one. Really? Wow.

Starting point is 02:48:29 They'll never be able to replace these guys with AI. There it is. And before we even get to it, it's time for John's tip of the day. Great advice for you and me. Just the tip with JCD. And sometimes Adam. Yeah, after doing all these expensive, even though I did the, I tried to back it off with the cheap wine that's amazing and good.

Starting point is 02:48:56 product. I should get some more. Wine, some other inexpensive items, free things. I had to go, I'm trying to go down scale after being condemned for the $1,000 television set. We'll never live that one down, will we? Well, you know, it's still a great product. What am I going to say? It is. And people have to buy TV sets. So there you go.

Starting point is 02:49:19 So let's go down to something that costs a couple of bucks. And this is one of, we have a number people out there that help me with these tips and they suggest things they suggested this and this is actually a pretty good little guy a little product this is the people should all have one of these sticks or or even a three pack of these of these tied oxy uh stain sticks they're called tied stain remover for clothes go to pen we have instant spot remover for clothes travel and we have it we have it we have it two dollars and 34 cents from Amazon and elsewhere. I concur with this tip because I am known around here as Mr. Spot.

Starting point is 02:50:03 Oh, Mr. Spot. Yes, I am always getting food on my clothes. I'm the guy that, you know, oh, I mean, the spaghetti is, oh, man, what? So, yes, Tina has these in massive quantities, and they are quite good at removing spots. So this is the Tide stain remover pen. Are these available in Europe, Australia, and other places around the world? I think they're available most places. This is a very hot product.

Starting point is 02:50:39 The Tide has done a pretty good job. It's a hot product, everybody. You know, I got a meeting long ago, I think it's with Procter & Gambler. Whoever owns Tide, it's either Procter and Gamble or the other guys. and I got a long lecture about, I'll just mention it, a long lecture about detergents and toothpaste and all the rest of it from these guys,

Starting point is 02:51:03 you know, the company men. And they went on and on about how the reason that you should only buy liquid detergent is because they made all the good, all the good powdered detergent illegal because you had to have a certain phosphorus content in there and make it work well.

Starting point is 02:51:19 And if you buy Mexican detergent, you can get the good old-fashioned powdered detergent, but otherwise you can only get any cleaning power. It has to be liquid. And I've always made note of that little tidbit and some other stuff they told me. It's a hot product, everybody. Hot product, hot. It's probably owned by Black Rock. That's John's tip of the day.

Starting point is 02:51:47 Green advice for you and me. Just the tip with JC. and sometimes Adam, created by Dana Burnettie. All right, that will do it. Noagendafunn.com, tip of the day.net. End of show mixes. We've got some slop. We got MVP.

Starting point is 02:52:08 Can I make a comment on the end of show mixes? Yeah. Because I've been moaning about this one voice that I keep hearing that does the Broadway tunes, and I realize who it was. Who is it? Who they're stealing from? It's a voice that is kind of, The way I describe it is it's kind of thin, but it's pleasant and always on tune.

Starting point is 02:52:28 It's always keyed up properly, and there's nothing wrong with it. It's Steve Lawrence of Steve Lawrence and Edie Gourmet mixed in with a little mel-tormei. And that's coming right up, along with D's laughs. Slap and Slop, end of show mix, also from MVP, get mojams.com. After the show, live on the screen, we've got upbeat 66, salty. Cray, I'm bringing you the pod, I mean, the Value for Value Music Show. There you go. And we're coming to you here from Fredericksburg, Texas, harder, Texas Hill Country.

Starting point is 02:53:05 In the morning, everybody, I'm Adam Curry. And from Northern Silicon Valley, where we ain't got no frost. I'm John C. DeVorek. We'll be back on Thursday. Remember us, no agenda donations.com. Until then, adios, mofos. A hooey, hooey, hooey, and such. Bar-a-doo.

Starting point is 02:53:22 Doop. Back in the days of the slogans and the loss of hope. He was the king of the cameo scene, the golden name on the TV screen. Donald would sit with Oprah on the velvet chair, talking about Maga with a wink and a flare. at his wedding feast He was toast of the town To say the least Oh, it's a flip-flop

Starting point is 02:54:00 phenomenon Can't you see you From a Democrat, darling to the GEOP One day you're posing for the paparazzi lens The next day you're losing all your Hollywood friends The ink on the check was a shade of blue But the tie turned red and the bridge burned to Yeah, it's a flip-flop phenomenon

Starting point is 02:54:21 cameras are still rolling but the audience has changed same man in the spotlight but the seating's rearranged Trump is the president and they are all are deranged Do do do do do do For the results of an investigation It's an inappropriate hugging Oh my goodness The place is falling apart

Starting point is 02:55:02 You've got to get out of that place, man. Inappropriate hugging is... What's going on with all these lies? What's going on with all these lies? I just want to multiply. Don't even know the reason why to the next guy. Oh, my, oh, my, oh, my. Some people can't even spell, oh, my.

Starting point is 02:55:21 Yours, your, and your. Oh, why can't even get the apostrophe right. Adult kids don't even know how to write. Kids listening with their parents fight. Trauma, trauma, trauma, right. Incindescent bedroom light. Flickering all day and night. Flick your ring at eight feet high signals going in my eyes.

Starting point is 02:55:39 Come on, man, you rapping slow. Pick it up where I got to go. Don't pretend that you don't see the loads waiting there for you to fold. Yes, I'm getting old. Yes, I want to be bold. Yes, I got no hold. This month is really, really cold. Don't give up on the future, man.

Starting point is 02:55:57 Just stick to the written plan. We can do it. I know we can. At least you're not in Iran. But come on, man. Don't you understand. Nothing's changed. It's the same old plan. Bombs away and then let's plan.

Starting point is 02:56:09 Oh man, oh man. Make money, handle fist. I need that. You need this. Then you piss. Then I piss. Then it becomes a pissing contest. Yes, I said it.

Starting point is 02:56:20 No, I don't regret it in the morning. Writing rap, they telling me the song is stacked. Ladies and gentlemen of the no agenda get moanation, we are pleased to bring you for your service. Mofo. To face these guys with AI. Oh my God. Did I hear what I heard? What? Am I, what a chopped liver? You know, when I was a kid, they didn't have robots.

Starting point is 02:58:26 Kill all humans. I'm watching dancing dogs.

No Agenda - 1837 - "Moral Injury"

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